A FEW GOOD aOOSEBEEEIES. 



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coigne, is good as well as early. The fruit is small, 

 round, deep green, and hairy, with a thin skin, and a 

 nice sweet flavour. The bush is very erect, and is an 

 excellent beai'er. 



Edward s Jolly Tar is of first-rate quality, and an 

 excellent bearer. The fruit is large, roundish, and 

 smooth, with yellow veins : it ripens early, and is ex- 

 cellent in flavour. The branches are drooping. 



Massey's Heai^t of Oak is another good green goose- 

 berry. The fruit is large, oblong, tapering to the stalk, 

 green, with yellowish veins, smooth and thin in the 

 skin. The flavour is rich and excellent, and the fruit 

 ripens rather early. The branches droop, and the bush 

 is an abundant bearer. 



Parkinson's Laurel, Green Laurel, or Green Willow, 

 is a large, roundish, downy, pale green gooseberry, a 

 first-rate kind, and a good bearer. The branches grow 

 erect ; it resembles Whitesmith, and ripens rather late. 



Wainwright's Ocean is a veiy large and rather early 

 smooth green gooseberry. It grows with drooping 

 branches. 



Green Walnut, Belmont Green, Smooth Green, or 

 Nonpareil, is an early kind of excellent flavour. The 

 fruit is of medium size, oblong, dark gi^een, and smooth, 

 with a thin skin. The bush grows with long, spreading 

 shoots, and the leaves are close to the branches. It is 

 an excellent bearer. 



Glenton Green, or York Seedling, is veiy good. It is 

 of medium size, oblong, tapering to the stalk, green with 

 whitish veins, very hairy, sweet and excellent in flavour. 

 The bush has a drooping grow^th, and is an excellent 

 bearer. The young shoots are downy, and prickly at the 

 base, and the leaves are downy on the surface. 



Other good green gooseberries are Jolly Anglers, a 

 good late sort, with a dow^ny skin, and an erect habit of 

 growth ; Gregory s Perfection, a first-rate late variety ; the 

 bush is drooping ; Pitmaston Greengage, small, smooth, 

 very sweet, and good for hanging on the tree until it be- 

 comes shrivelled ; the bush grows erect ; and Wistaston 

 Hero, a hairy gooseberry of good flavour. 



