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XXX. On a new Method of training Gooseberry Bushes. By 

 Mr. Stephen Jeeves, F. H. S. Gardener to the Lord 

 Dacre, at the Hoo, near Jfelwyn, in Hertfordshire. 



Read August 15, 1820, 



The plan of training Gooseberry bushes, which I have some 

 time adopted in the garden under my charge, is attended 

 with many advantages; and as it is, I believe, but little known, 

 for I am not aware of its being practised any where else, 

 I have been induced to submit the following account of it 

 to the Horticultural Society. 



The object of the operations which I am about to detail 

 is, to lead the branches, at first, in an upright direction, 

 and ultimately to train them on a trellis, in the manner 

 of a berceau or arbour walk. For this purpose, two rows 

 of young Gooseberry bushes should be planted, three feet 

 apart from each other in the row ; the interval between the 

 rows must be five feet and a half, and the strongest growing 

 kinds should be used, because their branches will more 

 readily attain the length required. 



The branches, when finally arranged, should be about 

 nine inches apart ; the plants being at the distance of three 

 feet, each one ought consequently to have four branches ; 

 but it is adviseable, at first, to train one or two more from 

 each root, in order to supply vacancies caused by injuries or 

 accidents. A sufficient number of stakes, about five feet 

 high, being fixed in the ground in the same line with the 



