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Chbrbt. — The largest Eed Currant, very showy, and sells 

 veil in market. Is hardly as pioductive in otir cUmate as the 

 Eed Dutch, and decidedly more acid. Bunches quite short. 



Gloire db Sablons. — A very prettily striped vaiiety, red and 

 white, hut small in size, and valuable chiefly for its ornamental 

 appearance. 



La. Vebsaillaise. — Sb very closely resemhling the Cheny 

 Currant in size, color and flavor, that having the one we have 

 no occasion for the other. 



Eed Dutch. — ^This old, well known and long tried sort is 

 yet a very valuable variety, of good size, fine color, rich acid 

 flavor, long clusters and exceedingly productive. 



Victoria. — ^A valuable, late ripening sort. The fruit is of a 

 bright red color, as large as the Eed Dutch. The bunches are 

 very long, and hang a fortnight longer than other sorts. It is 

 an abundant bearer, and greatly lengthens the Currant season. 



White Grape. — The best "White Currant ; berries very large, 

 not so acid as the red varieties, and of good flavor. An exceed- 

 ingly productive and valuable sort. 



THE GOOSEBEEET. 



In the climate of Great Britain, the Gooseberry is grown in 

 great perfection, but with us, it is only in comparatively a few 

 fiivored localities that any good measure of success crowns our 

 efEorts. It is usual for cultivators to say, that the mildew is so 

 bad that it destroys the crop, and even ruins the plants. Eor 

 all practical purposes, this statement is sufficiently exact, though 

 the real difficulty Hes, not in the mildew, but in such a condition 

 of the epidermis or outer skin of the leaves and fruit of the 

 Gooseberry, as to provide a suitable bed for the growth of the 

 minute fungoid plants which constitute mildew. This condition 

 is doubtless produced by a state of atmosphere iacidental to the 

 climate of this country, the effects of which we do not know how 

 fullv to counteract. 



