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THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



*^ §§ Oblovg, 



A. Skin smooth. 

 Careless (Crompton) 

 Citizen (Scerratt) 



Eagle (Cook) 

 Elizabeth (Hollins) 

 Flora (Chapman) 

 Freedom (Moore) 

 Lady Delamere (Wild) 

 Lioness (Fennyhangh) 

 Progress (Lockett) 

 Queen Caroline (Lovart) 

 Queen of Trumps (Horrocks) 

 White Fig 



B. Skin dovmy. 

 Cheshire Lass (Saunders) 

 Sheba Queen (Crompton) 

 Wellington's Glory 

 White Lily 



White Lion (Cleworth) 



oval, or obovate. 



Whitesmith (Woodward) 



c. Skin hairy. 

 Abraham Newland (Jackson) 

 Antagonist (Oldfield) 

 Blackley Hero (Boardman) 

 Bonny Lass (Capper) 

 Bright Venus (Taylor) 

 Duchess of Sutherland (Biddulph) 

 Era (Walton) 

 Governess (Bratherton) 

 Jenny Lind (Lockett) 

 Lady of the Manor (Hopley) 

 Monster (Baker) 

 Peto (Hilton) 

 Princess Royal 

 Queen of the West (Bayley) 

 Snowdrift (Hardman) 

 Tally-Ho (Riley) 

 White Champagne 



ABRAHAM NEWLAND (Jackson).— Large and oblong. Skin, 

 white and hairy. Highly flavoured and excellent. Bush, erect. 



two-veined a little 

 Skin, smooth, light 



ADVANCE (Chippindale).— Fruit, long; the 

 tapered, the three-veined long and well formed, 

 green. Bush, spreading ; bears freely. 



A new variety, which in 1864 weighed 23 dwt. 14 gr. 



ALMA (Rowson). — Fruit, plump, and square shaped, of medium 

 length, with seed-veins deeply sunk towards the stalk. Skin, smooth, 

 greenish white. Flavour, good. In 1863 weighed 25 dwt. 



Bush, spreading, and an excellent bearer. 



AMBER {Yellow Amber ; Smooth Amber). — Medium sized, roundish. 

 Skin, smooth, greenish yellow. Of good flavour, but not first-rate. 

 Bush, a good bearer ; spreading. 



ANTAGONIST (Oldfield).— Fruit, long, with large plump nose and 

 broad raised shoulders ; the seed-veins broad and a little sunk. Will 

 grow from one and three-quarters to two and a quai'ter inches in 

 length, and from five to five and a quarter inches in circumference. 

 Skin, hairy, creamy white, veins a little green. Flavour, good. In 

 1864 weighed 34 dwt. 4 gr. ; in 1868 weighed 84 dwt. 21 gr. 



This is the largest white gooseberry in cultivation, having several 

 times been the heaviest berry grown of any colour for the season, and 

 the heaviest white berry ever since 1857. One of the very best either 

 for exhibition or market purposes. 



Bush, large and spreading ; a vigorous grower and an excellent 

 bearer. 



