196 On a new Method of training Gooseberry Bushes. 



times perfectly clean and free from the dirt occasioned by 

 the splashing of rain, which always happens when the 

 branches are near the ground : and I am satisfied that a 

 more abundant crop is produced on plants ihus trained than 

 on those of equal age managed in the ordinary way. The 

 facility with which the ground can be dug and manure ap- 

 plied is also additional cause of recommendation of the 

 plan. 



If a larger produce of Gooseberries is required than one 

 line of trellis will supply, a second and a third may be for- 

 med, and the intervals between them may be cropped with 

 any garden vegetable, for these spaces will not he trampled 

 upon ; as, in the performance of any of the operations, it 

 is not necessary for the gardener to go on the outside of 

 the fiame to work. 



The effect to the eve, when the crop is ripe, is much the 

 best when the same kinds of Gooseberries are planted op- 

 posite to each other in the rows, so that both sides and the 

 top of the arch at the same place may bear similar fruit. 



Though I have not used this method of training for 

 Currants, yet I conceive it might be applied to them with 

 equal advantage. 



