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GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. 



GOOSEBERRY.— (Ribes Grossularia.) 



The Gooseberry, like the Currant, is a native of Eu- 

 rope. Green, it is used for pies, tarts, and puddings; 

 ripe, it is a very agreeable dessert fruit. It is more im- 

 patient of heat than the currant, and cannot be expected 

 to thrive except among the mountains. It is, like the cur- 

 rant, propagated from cuttings, likes the same soil and 

 treatment generally, even in the Northern States, and in 

 our mountain region the fruit is liable to mildew, the 

 foreign varieties being much more subject to it than the 

 native varieties. 



Houghton's Seedling and Downing's Seedling are the 

 best native varieties we have seen. Woods earth, or leaf 

 mould, and ashes, are the best manures for both the cur- 

 rant and gooseberry that we have tried. 



THE GBAPE.-(m.) 



The vine was one of the first plants brought into culti- 

 vation. The foreign grapes are all varieties of Vitis vini- 

 fera, and came originally from Asia. Of native grapes, 

 we have Vitis Labrusca, of which Isabella, Catawba, 

 Concord, Diana, and Hartford Prolific, and many others, 

 are varieties; Vitis cordifolia and V. aestivalis include 

 the wild Summer, the Frost Grape, and of the cultivated 

 varieties, the Ohio, Warren, or Herbemont, Lenoir, 

 Taylor's Bullit, and a host of new ones of the same 

 class; Vitis rotundifolia includes the wild Muscadine, 

 or Bullace, of the South, and the Scuppernong, and, we 

 are almost inclined to add, the Mustang. 



Our American grapes are seedlings from the wild varie- 



