GOOSEBERRY, 



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Hay lies, an English writer, advises taking off cuttings in 

 July, when the fruit is on the tree, in order to make sure 

 of the sorts ; and says, hy immediate planting, watering, 

 and shading, as good plants are produced as from ripe wood 

 cuttings. 



Soil arid site. — Any good garden-soil, on a dry bottom, 

 and well manured, will suit the gooseberry. That which 

 is soft and moist produces the largest fruit. The situation 

 should not be under the drip of trees over-much shaded or 

 confined, otherwise the fruit will be small, ill-flavoured, and 

 the plants apt to mildew. Forsyth says, gooseberries should 

 be dunged every year, or at least have a good coat of dung 

 once in two years. Haynes recommends a mixture of peat 

 and loam well manured, and a shaded situation. The last 

 he proposes to effect by planting, among his compartments 

 of gooseberries, rows of Jerusalem artichokes in the direc- 

 tion of east and west." — Loudon, 



Final planting. — " The season for planting gooseberries 

 is any time during open weather, from October till March 

 [or the 1st of April in New England]. When trees are 

 procured from the public nurseries, choose such as are of 

 some advanced size, about three years' growth, with pretty 

 full heads, for immediate plentiful bearers. Let the gene- 

 ral supply be in standard bushes, and planted principally 

 in the kitchen-garden, in single rows, along the boundary 

 edges of the main compartments. When the object is to 

 raise large quantities of fruit, plantations are made in con- 

 tinued parallel rows, eight or ten feet asunder, by six feet 

 in the row. It would be eligible to plant a few sorts 

 against south and other sunny walls, or paling, for earlier 

 and larger fruit ; and on north walls to ripen late in suc- 

 cession." — Abercrombie, 



Forsyth says, " The market-gardeners about London 

 plant them in rows, from eight to ten feet apart from row 

 to row, and six feet from plant to plant, in the rows. In 

 small gardens I v/ould recommend planting them in a com- 

 partment by themselves, at the distance of six feet between 

 the rows, and four feet from plant to plant ; or you may 

 plant them round the edges of the compartments, about 

 three feet from the path ; you will then have the ground 

 clear for cropping, and a man, by setting one foot on the 

 border, can gather the gooseberries without injuring the 

 crop." 



Neill says, ^' In some places, gooseberry-trees, on the 

 sides of the borders, are trained to a single tall stem, which 



