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THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
profitable way is to leave him alone. The best sorts are 
White Dutch , Baby Red , Red Grape, Black Naples, and 
Lee's Prolific Black. 
The Gooseberry may be grown in a great variety of ways, 
and in places where, owing to adverse circumstances, the pro- 
duction of useful fruits is a matter of difficulty ; this humble 
but useful berry should be largely cultivated. No one will 
touch a gooseberry while grapes or peaches are at hand, but 
when we are shut up to well-ripened samples of greengage 
gooseberry or the more famous Crown Bob, we feel that the 
world is still worth staying in, and shall easily find a lot of 
young people of precisely the same opinion. The gooseberry 
thrives on any good garden soil, and is the better usually for 
the protection of a wall or hedge. But to bring it to the 
highest perfection of which it is capable, a deep sandjq well 
drained and highly manured soil is requisite. The great 
berries that are weighed to the fraction of a grain by the 
serious censors at a gooseberry show are the result of very 
careful cultivation, the trees being systematically pruned so 
as to spread the growth equals to the air and light, and the 
crop being severely thinned and abundantly fed with liquid 
manure. But a row of useful sorts grown for the household 
use may be left alone as regards pruning, and the produce 
will surpass by ten times that of trees of the same size kept 
closely pruned in on the spurring system, for the more open 
and symmetrical and artistic the form of the tree the more 
surely will the east wind in the month of May secretly strip 
the fruit from it, while the unpruned tree will protect all its 
fruit Avith its own buxom leafy growth, and give you pecks to 
the other tree’s pints. In places where first-class fruits can- 
not be grown, it is a good plan to plant gooseberries in all 
sorts of aspects and on walls and fences, for the uses of the 
fruit are innumerable, and a well-made gooseberry wine 
comes nearest to champagne of any of the many imitations 
of that delectable fluid. 
A selection oe Gooseberries should include the War- 
rington as the most useful of all for culinary purposes. Then 
we may add the following, the most desirable of which are 
marked with an asterisk : — Bed — Champagne* , Croivn Bob*, 
Red Globe, Plough Red*, Companion*. Yellow — Glory of 
Oldport, Leader *, Yellow Champagne* . Green — British 
Queen*, Green Gage*, Greenwood, Turn-out. White — Queen 
of Trumps, Large Early White*, Whitesmith*. 
