1'''6 Cultivation of the Gooseberry. 
Previous to shipping cranberries, they should be run over a 
platform slightly inclined. The rotton and bruised fruit will not 
run off, but stick going down the platform, and are scraped off 
and thrown away. The perfect fruit is then put into tight barrels, 
and when headed up filled with water, and in this manner they 
arrive in Europe, in perfect order, and have frequently sold in 
foreign ports at $20 per barrel. 
Rakes are now made for the express purpose of gathering cran- 
berries, and although these rakes tear the vines somewhat, yet the 
crop is not diminished by raking; on the contrary, it has been 
increased. Some years ago a gentleman in Massachusetts com- 
menced raking his little patch of one-fourth of an acre. The 
first year it produced twelve bushels, the next eighteen, the third, 
twenty-five, and so on till his last harvest, when the crop amounted 
to sixty-five bushels. The increase is easily accounted for by the 
method of gathering with rakes — the pulling up a few of the 
vines loosens the ground, and although not intended, yet in fact 
the raking acts as a partial cultivation. 
To promote the cultivation of this fruit, the American Institute 
is making arrangements to supply horticulturists with plants early 
in the spring, in either large or small quantities; and I would 
recommend those wishing to purchase, in this vicinity or New- 
York, to get their supplies in this way. 
B. G. BOSWELL. 
Philadelphia, Jan. 1844. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE GOOSEBERRY— TO SECURE 
IT FROM THE SCAB OR FUNGUS. 
That useful and valuable fruit, the gooseberry, which is now 
considered so important in Europe, is with diflSculty raised here, 
the berry so soon becomes scabbed or covered with a dirty fungus. 
This takes place, too, in gardens where every care has been be- 
stowed on them. This excess of attention in keeping them free 
from weeds and grass, and exposing them to the hot weather of 
August and September, proves highly injurious and contrary to 
their nature. I am fully convinced, after much observation, that 
the mode of culture with Gooseberries in England, will not apply 
to this region. I have had ample opportunities of witnessing 
what has been accomplished in England, and what has been 
attempted here, and now see the cause of failure. In the notes I 
have kept on the progress of vegetation and the ripening of fruits 
for 1837, which was a remarkably wet season, there is the fol- 
lowing entry: 
