MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 149 



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

 border, can gather the Goofeberries without injuring the 

 crop. 



As Goofeberries love a rich foil, they fhould be dunged 

 every year, or at leaft have a good coat of dung once in two 

 years. 



Never plant them under the fhade of other trees, as it will 

 injure the flavour of the fruit. 



Of Pruning Goofeberry-buJJies. 



It is a practice too common in pruning Goofeberries, to 

 let them branch out with great naked Items, fuffering them 

 to remain in that ftate for years. When that is the cafe, they 

 fhould be cut down near to the ground in the Winter 

 pruning ; this will make them throw out fine ftrong healthy- 

 fhoots which will bear fruit the fecond year. Goofeberry- 

 bufhes, in general, bear their fruit on the fecond year's wood. 

 Care fhould be taken in Summer to keep the middle of the 1 

 bufh clear to admit a free air into them ; leaving the fined: 

 and ftrongeft fhoots from fix to ten inches diftant from each 

 other. This will help to ripen and harden the wood. It is a 

 practice with fome to fhorten the fhoots in the Autumn or 

 Winter pruning : this fhould be always near to a wood-bud ; 

 which may be known by its being fingle, whereas fruit-buds 

 are in clufters. The fhoots may be fhortened to eight or ten 

 inches, according to their ftrength. Some leave them at full " 

 length for three or four years, thinning out thofe that are 

 fuperfluous. Always leave a proper number to be trained up 

 between the full length fhoots, to fucceed them when they 



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