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PIQTOBIAL PRAGTIGAL FRUIT OROWING. 



Cbapter X»— Selections or busd fruits, 



CUEEANTS, Gooseberries, and Easpberries — for the last .named may be 

 classed amongst the bush fruits as a matter of convenience, and without 

 seriously straining a point — do not give any serious trouble in selection, 

 except perhaps to meet the case of the man, happily not often encountered, 

 who wants tiie names of fifty or sixty Lancashire prize Gooseberries, with their 

 colours. 



Now the fruits named are everyday sort of things, very rarely taken 

 much notice of, except when they are in bearing; but it is just as easy to 

 grow good varieties as bad ones, and much more profitable ; therefore, let us 

 dissect the catalogues. 



The Best Currants. 

 Three good Blaclts. 

 Baldwin's. 

 Black Naples. 

 Lee's Prolific. 

 One good Blaclt. 

 Lee's Prolific. 



(Vic- 



Three good Reds. 

 Comet. 

 Kaby Castle 



toria). 

 Red Dutch. 

 One good Bed. 

 Raby Castle, 



Tlie Best Gooseberries. 

 Vive for gathering green. Four for flavour. 



~ ' Bright Venus, white. 



A good Wldte. 



White Dutch. 

 Tmo good market varie- 

 ties. 



Baldwin's. 



Red Dutch. 



Crown Bob. 



Lancashire Lad. 

 Whinham's Industry. 

 Whitesmith. 

 One for gathering green. 

 Whinham's Industry. 



Catherina, yellow. 

 Dan's Mistake, red. 

 Early Sulphur, yellow. Leveller, yellow 



Pitmaston Greengage, London, red. 



green. Stockwell, green. 



Red Champagne, red. A good sort for pre- 

 Six very large varieties. serving. 



Antagonist, white. Red Warrington. 



The Best Raspberries. 



There are many Raspberries, but only a dozen or so are in general 

 cultivation, and several of these are really hardly worth growing, consider- 

 ing how much superior two particular varieties are : — 



Six of the lest sorts. Superlative. A good autumn iearer. 



Baumfoirth's Seedling. Yellow Antwerp. October Red. 



Carter's Prolific. Tmo of the best. A good sort for pre- 



Carter's Prolific. serving. 



Superlative. Semper Fidelis. 



Hornet. 

 October Red. 



Canker References (sec page 65). 



A, part ol the stem and branches of an Apple tree : a, portions 0/ dean stem ; h,anaffected 



branch ; c, diseased brandies. 



Canker on stem : d, wound with cort^Mtted bade s^irroundlng the wound, but not giving 

 visible sign of infection by parasitic organism ; e, wound bearing in clejts of the bark 

 at the circumference of the wound fruits of Canker Fungus, Nectria ditissima. 



Canker on branches : f completely girdled, and parts above the wotinds killed, i/OMn? 

 growths pushed from healthy parts below points of attack, hut the parasite is still 

 existent in the ba7-k below the dead parts of the branches ; g, wounds on branches, but 

 not to the extent of girdling them ; h, shoot killed in the year of attack. 



B, fruits (peritheoia or spore capsules) enlarged 25 diameters. 



C, asci or bladders of Fungus with spores, magnijied 250 times, 



D, spore of Fungus : i, germinal tube, enlarged 660 diameters. 



