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season is therefore desirable. This in the northern part of the 

 country can easily he accomplished, even to the end of October. 

 It is quite usual to see fine fresh Gooseberries at Scotch shows 

 about the middle of September. These, as a rule, are gathered 

 from ordinary bushes that have perhaps been shaded with mats 

 or canvas after becoming ripe. The best way to lengthen 

 out the season of Gooseberries is to plant a portion of a 

 wall with a due north aspect with some Warringtons, and 

 train them on the multiple-cordon system, and keep the laterals 

 spurred in precisely the same as is adopted with Red Currants 

 on fences or walls, or in fact with Gooseberry bushes grown in 

 the ordinary way. The main shoots should not be closer than 

 10 inches. If a coping of wood be placed on the wall to throw 

 off wet, using a net to protect the fruit from birds, they can be 

 kept fresh till far into October, and are then very useful and 

 acceptable. 



As to the varieties of Gooseberries, their name is legion, and 

 I do not profess to be acquainted with such as are now grown 

 by some for prizes offered for mere size. Their flavour is, I 

 believe, in inverse ratio to their size, and, so far as I am aware, 

 the older varieties have never been superseded for flavour. These 

 are, among others : 



Red. White. 



Ironmonger. Bright Venus. 



Keen's Seedling. Hedgehog. 



Eed Champagne. Mayor of Oldham. 



Eed Warrington. Whitesmith. 

 Turkey Eed. 

 Wilmot's Early Eed. 



Green. 



Yelloiu. Glenton Green. 



Early Sulphur. Green Gascoigne. 



Leader. Green Overall. 



Perfection. Pitmaston Greengage. 



Yellow Champagne. Model. 



The twenty- nine degrees of frost we had here (Drumlanrig, 

 N.B.) on March 17 has so crippled our Gooseberries that I doubt 

 if they will ever recover. I never saw Gooseberries suffer from 

 cold before, but then they had grown considerably when this 

 unusually severe frost for the date occurred. 



