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in 1905, when five bushes of Pearl, six by four feet apart, yielded 75 lbs., or at the rate 



of 27,225 lbs. per acre, equal to over 680 bushels per acre. 



. J 1, /~i ^j in Viia wnrk on Bush Truits, is at the rate 

 The highest yield mentioned by Card m his worK on 4 v TTp gives 



, •, , t,+„;r,»rl nt thp Geneva Experiment Station, N.Y. i±e gives 



nf ^iiO buqhels ner acre, obtained at tne vjKutjva j-i^^-s- 



tte probable range fVom 300 to 500 bushels per acre. Bailey gives the average as 100 

 bushels per acre, but we believe this is much below what is grown m Canada. 



Varieties of Gooseberries Recommended. 



American.— Pearl, Downing,' Red Jacket (Josselyn). 



English (from experience at the Central Experimental Earm).— Companion, Eagle, 

 Glenton Green, Queen of Trumps, Snowball. 



English varieties usually recommended. — Whitesmith, Industry. 



Propagation. 



Gooseberries may be propagated either from cuttings or by layering. The average 

 person wiU usually get the best results from layering, as cuttings are often very 

 unsatisfactory. To propagate by layering, the bushes should be pruned severely in 

 the autumn. This will induce a strong growth of young shoots the next season. When 

 these have made most of their growth, which will be in July, the earth is heaped up 

 around and through the bush until only the tips of the young shoots are left 

 uncovered. The soil is packed down and then a covering of loose soil thrown over to 

 retain moisture better. Most of the American varieties will have rooted well by 

 autumn, and the young plants may be detached and planted in nursery rows either 

 the same fall or the following spring, to be grown there for one season. English 

 varieties usually take two years to root, and the soil must be left about the bushes for 

 that time. Cuttings of American varieties will sometimes give fairly satisfactory .. 

 results if made from well ripened wood and treated as currant cuttings. The cuttings 

 are made six to eight inches or less in length, and buried in the soil over winter. In 

 spring they are set out in nursery rows, planting deep enough so that only one or two 

 buds are above the ground. Both American and English varieties may be propagated 

 from green wood cuttings in a greenhouse, or hotbed with bottom heat. 



Scalding of the Fruit. 



In a very hot, dry time gooseberries are often scalded, become unfit for use and 

 fall to the ground. If the gooseberries are planted in heavy, cool soil and the ground 

 kept well cultivated and the sawfly prevented from eating the foliage there will be 

 little trouble. Unfortunately in many plantations the foliage is very scant, either on 

 account of poor cultivation or injury from the worm of the savsrfly, and it is under 

 such conditions that the greatest injury occurs. 



Gooseberry Mildew. — Tie gooseberry mildew has prevented the general culture 

 of the English gooseberry in America. This disease attacks the leaves, twigs and 

 fruit. When the attack is bad it destroys the foliage, covers the fruit and causes most 

 of it to drop. It saps the growing shoot to such an extent that they do not ripen 

 properly, and dry up without setting fruit buds. It thus practically destroys the crop 



