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CHAPTER XII. 



OF GOOSEBERRIES. 



Different Sorts of Gooseberries ; and the Weight of many large 



new ones from Manchester The Propagation^ Plantings 



and Pruning of Gooseberries»,,»A Method of Destroying Cat- 

 erpillars. 



The Gooseberry and Currant are ranged by Linnaeus in the 

 first order of his fifth class, Pentandria Monogynia. 



The Gooseberries common in this Country are, 



Green Gascoin, Hairy and Smooth Red, 



Smooth Green, Large Smooth Yellow, 



Early Black, Large Rough Yellow, 



Small Early Red, Common and Large White, 



Large Smooth Dutch Yellow, Champaigne. 



A List of the largest new Sorts shown in Lancashire last Summer 

 (1800), with their Colour and Weighty communicated by 



Manchester, 



dw. gr. 



3fessrs. M^Niven^ Nurserymen. 



Red Gooseberries. dw. gr. 



Alcock's King-, 16 15 



Duke of York, - - - 16 1 



Boardman's Royal Oak, - - - - 15 4 



Brundrit's Atlas, 17 1 



Chapman's Peerless, ----- 15 21 



Dien's Glory of England, - - - 16 2 



Fairlow's Lord Hood, 14 5 



Fisher's Conqueror, 17 19 



Fox's Jolly Smoker, 15 8 



Hall's Porcupine, 13 20 



Lomax's Victory, - -- -- -- 16 11 



Mason's Hercules, 13 16 



Taylor's Volunteer, 16 17 



Worthington's Glory of Eccles, 14 10 

 Tellow Gooseberries. 



Brundrit's Sir Sidney, 15 22 



Davenport's Defender, - - - - 15 12 



Creeping Ceres, - 16 



Hamnet's Kilton, 15 9 



Hill's Golden Gourd, 13 17 



Royal Sovereign, - ■ - - 17 10 



Leigh's Prince of Orange, - - 15 



Parkinson's Goldfinder, - - - - 14 5 

 October 27, 1800. 



Robinson's Crudus, 13 



Withington's Sceptre, 13 



Green Gooseberries. 



Blakeley's Chissel, 17 



Boardman's Green Oak, 14 



Brundrit's Tickle Toby, 14 



Chadwick's Hero, 13 



Dean's Lord Hood, 15 



Mill's Langley Green, 16 



Read's Satisfaction, 15 



Robinson's Stump, 13 



Smith's Green Mask, 13 



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6 

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 10 



2 

 4 

 21 

 20 



Yates's Duke of Bedford, 14 11 



White Gooseberries. 



Adams's Snow Ball, 12 22 



Atkinson's White Hall, 14 8 



Chapman's Highland White,- - 12 



Davenport's Lady, 15 



Gibson's Apollo,' 14 20 



Holding's White Muslin,- - - - 13 



Kenyon's White Noble, 13 6 



Moor's White Bear, 14 19 



Woodward's White Smith, - - 17 2 



