RIBES. 



innumerable others, fome of very large fize, annually railed 

 from reed, weighing from ten to fifteen pennyweights ; how- 



fivf, there are fmall ones better tailed. There are laid to 

 be upward, of two hundred, at leaft in name. 



And Mr. Forlyth has given the following lilt from the 

 i-atalogue of Meflrs. Kirk, nurferymen, at Brompton, near 

 don. 

 The fuprcme red, perfection red, high (herilf of Lanca- 

 shire, royal George, unicorn, rough amber, white walnut, 

 A ckerley's double bearer, royal oak, Mifs Bold's, fparkler, 

 Ackerley's Rodney, Hampfon's Csfar, Monk's Charles 

 Fox, St. John, pigeon egg, Worthinglowe's conqueror, 

 golden eagle, Royder's triumph, Williamlon's yellow hornet, 

 Swingham, Jacklon's golden orange, Goliah champion, 

 hairy amber, Nixon's golden eagle, Worthington's white 

 lily, Laylord's feedliog, Nixon's white heart, Riding's old 

 England, Bakeley's Swingham, Tillotfon's St. John. 



The fame writer alfo adds another lilt of the largelt new 

 forts which u ere (hewn in Laneafhire, in the fummer of 1800, 

 with their colour and weight, as communicated by Meflrs. 

 M'Niven, nurferymen, Manchefter. 



Red Sorts of Goofeberries. 



Alcock's king 



duke of York 



Boardman's royal oak 

 Brundrit'e atlas 

 Chapman's peerlefs 

 Dien's glory of England 

 Fairlow's lord Hood 

 Filher's conqueror - 

 Fox's jolly lmoker 

 Hall's porcupine 

 Lomax's vidtory 

 Mafon's Hercules 

 Taylor's volunteer - 

 Worthington's glory of Eccles 



Yellow Sorts of Goofeberries. 



Brundrit's fir Sidney 

 Davenport's defender 



creeping Ceres 



Hamnet's Kilton 

 Hill's golden gourd 



royal - 



i. :igh' 1 princ ■ •:!" i )rauge 



tinder 

 Robinfon' . crudus 

 Wellington's fceptre 



Green Sorts of Goofeberries. 



I'lakeley's chifl'el 



Boardman's green oak 



Brimdrit's tickle Toby 



Chadwick's hero ... 



Dean's lord Hood ... 



Mill's Langley-green 



Read' 1 fa( 



Robinlor.'s (tump - 



Smith's green malk 



\ iti s duke of Bedford 



White Sorts of Goofetx n 



Adam's fnow-ball ... 

 At kmlon's white h.dl 



Chapman's Highland white - 



Davenport's lady - 



Gibfon's Apollo .... 



Holding's white rauflin ... 



Kenyon's white noble ... 



Moor's white bear .... 



Woodward's white fmith ... 



It is obferved, that in favourable feafons, many of tin- 

 above forts have been known to weigh more by fevera ; 

 pennyweights. 



In all the fouth-ealtern parts of Laneafhire there are a 

 great number of little focieties held by the labouring and 

 manufacturing' workmen, and the gardeners; where °thefe 

 forts of fruits are annually exhibited, under many different 

 arbitrary names and defignations, as Goliahs, golden drops, 

 Sic. and their merits and capabilities of improvement 

 finally fettled and decided upon. 



The fifth fort has the fruit when ripe commonly dark 

 purple, but fometimes red or even yellow. 



In the lixth kind the fruit is fmall and round, the fize and 

 fliape of a currant ; the colour at firlt purple, but when 

 ripe, dark purple with a blue bloom ; it is fmooth, on a fhort 

 (lender italk. 



Method of Culture in the Currant Kind. — In general thefc 

 may be railed with great facility from layers, feed, cuttings, 

 and in other ways. In the firlt of thefe modes, when the 

 trees are cut low, Mr. Forfyth advifes the laying down fome 

 of the branches either in the winter or fpring feafons, when 

 the ground in the quarters or rows is dug, which ihould al- 

 ways be done annually. In the autumn following, tl 

 layers will have made fine roots ; then they may be taken 

 off, and planted out where they are to ftand, and they will 

 mollly bear fine fruit in the following fummer. 



But in the fecond method, the cuttings fhould be chofen 

 of the ftrongelt and ltraighteft (hoots, which fhould be cut 

 fix or eight inches in length, and be planted out on an call 

 or north border, in the early autumn, at the distance of a 

 foot from row to row, leaving only a few inches out of the 

 ground. In this way they may be kept perfectly free from 

 weeds. In dry weather, during the fpring, they ihould be 

 often refrefhed with water. Some alfo raife thef< pi: • 

 from fuckers; but this is a method that fhould be avoided 

 as much as podiblc, as they never grow handfome, a. id are 

 apt to throw out fuckers afterwards. 



With refpett to the feed, it fhould be fown on a border 

 where the mould is line, cither in the autumn or ( uilv in the 

 fpring ; and the young plants, when they app< ar, be kept 

 free from weeds. When they have attained fufficient 

 growth, they may either b ! planted out where they are to 

 in, or be let out in nurfery-rows. However, Mr. 

 Forfyth obierves, that under the bufhes that have been 

 CO'V led for late fruit, plenty of felt-town plants may con- 

 Itantly be found, which he advilcs to be j l.,nl ,1 1 .1: by 

 themfelves. And thofe who make currant-wine may, he 

 thinks, fave the feed, after the fruit is fqueezed, and dr\ 11 : 

 it may then be fown in the manni r diluted above, by which, 

 molt probably, loine fine v., net be obtained. As 111 



gardens tie re Ihll remains, the fame writer remarks, 

 a fmall fort of red and white currant not worth cultivatin . 

 he would advife thole who have any "I then) l t tie to 



up, and plant in their room thi I d and white Dub 1. 



the long-bunched red, and Champaigue large pale lei 1 . 

 Thefe kinds oi plants may be planted nut, it IS fugg (ted, 

 cither in ttie quarters, or (ingle rows round the edge:. of tin- 

 quarters, in the gardens or other places. And he would 



particularly 



