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are tired of bearing ; then cut the old ones down to the young 

 ones that are to fucceed them. By thefe means you will 

 always keep the bufhes in a conftant ftate of bearing. 



You may obferve, that thofe branches which were cut the 

 firft year, will in the fecond throw out fhort dugs, or fpurs, 

 which produce the fruit ; and thefe fhould by no means be 

 cut off, unlels the branches are in a fickly ftate, and require 

 to be cut clofe down (as is the cafe this year, 1800), when 

 the bullies are overloaded with fruit. It will then be neceflary 

 to cut out a good deal of the old wood, to affift Nature to 

 recover herfelf after producing fo great a quantity of fruit. 

 This year the bullies are fo loaded that the branches are bent 

 down to the ground. 



Goofeberries are well worth paying attention to, as they 

 fupply the table fo amply till the wall fruit comes in. 



There have been considerable additions made to them, of 

 late years, from the great attention that has been paid, by the 

 gardeners and others of Manchefter and its neighbourhood, 

 to ralfmg Goofeberries from feed. 



Their Catalogues now contain between four and five 

 hundred forts or varieties ; but fome are fo near each other as 

 hardly to be diftinguifhed. By mixing up a rich foil to plant 

 thofe in which have been railed from feed,' and by watering, 

 fhading, and thinning the fruit, they have grown to a fize 

 much larger than any that had ever been feen in this country. 

 They have made it their principal ftudy to improve this 

 valuable fruit, and have given great encouragement, by 

 eflabliihing focieties for diftributing prizes annually to thofe 

 who raife the largeft and fmeft new forts But it muft be 

 allowed, that fome of the largeft are much thicker in the 

 fkin, and not fo well flavoured as fome of the old forts. 



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