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ALBANY NURSERIES 
GOOSEBERRIES ( Ribes 
This fruit is useful for cooking when green or ripe, and it may be canned with such facility 
that it is beginning to be cultivated very extensively for both home use and market. 
It requires the same cultivation and treatment for worms as the currant. The worms attack 
the Gooseberry before the currant bushes, and if a few of the former are set near a currant planta- 
tion, and the worms exterminated on these, there will be little if any trouble from them on the 
currant bushes. 
The American varieties, though not quite so 
are not subject to mildew. 
Crown Bob. Very 
large; thin skin; hairy; 
bright red ; flavor very 
good. 
Downing. Origi n- 
ated at Newburg, N. 
Y. Fruit much larger 
than H ou gh ton; 
roundish; light green, 
with distinct veins; 
skin smooth; flesh 
soft; juicy and very 
fine-flavored. Vigor- 
ous and productive. 
Houghton’s Seedling 
Vigorous grower, a- 
bundant bearer; fruit 
of medium size; pale 
red, sweet and juicy. 
Free from mildew. 
Industry. This is Gooseberries. Note the root 
said to be the best system, the result of being 
English Gooseberry carefully dug. 
yet intropuced. It is of vigorous, upright 
growth, and a great cropper. The berries are 
of the largest size, dark red, hairy, rich and a- 
greeable. Mildews in Williamette Valley. 
Josselyn. (Red Jacket.) An American seed- 
large as the English sorts, are of fine quality and 
ling of large size; smooth, prolific and hardy; of 
best quality. Has been well tested over a wide 
extent of territory by the side of all the leading 
varieties, and so far the freest from mildew, both 
in leaf and -fruit, of them all. A wonderful crop- 
per, with bright, clean, healthy foliage. 
Originated by Professor Wm. Saunders, of 
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, 
and named Red Jacket in memory of an old Indian 
chief, the introducer not being aware at the time 
of the existence of another Gooseberry (English) 
named “Red Jacket.” The committee on Nom- 
enclature of the Western New York Horticultural 
Society, at Rochester, Jan. 25, 1899, to hereafter 
prevent confusion in varieties, renamed the 
American Red Jacket Josselyn, in honor of the 
introducer. 
Oregon Champion. A variety introduced from 
Oregon, where it originated; fruit large, round; 
an immense bearer, and entirely free from mil- 
dew. One of the best yet introduced. 
Victoria. New. The best Gooseberry in Eng- 
land and the champion bearer for the London 
market. Strong grower, making shoots 3 feet 
9 incher in a season. Berries larger than Crown 
Bob or Lancashire Lad, pale red, of excellent 
flavor: A late bloomer and a sure cropper; hardy. 
A three year-old bush, bearing 28J pounds of fine, 
large fruit, was shown in 1900. All around, it 
seems well suited for market purposes here. 
ASPARAGUS 
This earliest and finest of spring vegetables is among the easiest cultivated and most profit" 
able. A bed once planted suffers no deterioration for thirty years or more, if it is properly attended 
to and well manured. 
Cultivation. — See that the ground is well drained, naturally or otherwise; work it up fine and 
deep, and make it very rich with well rotted barnyard manure. Locate the plants eight inches a- 
part in rows three feet apart. Spread out the roots in a trench made deep enough to permit their 
crowns to be covered with three or four inches of mellow earth. Give the bed liberal dressings of 
manure at intervals, and except near the seashore, three pounds of salt per square yard yearly every 
spring. Do not cut for use until the plants have grown two seasons. 
Conover’s Colossal. This variety is much super- 
ior in size and quality to any of the old common 
varieties, being remarkably tender and of very 
fine flavor. 
Columbian Mammoth White. It produces shoots 
which are white aud remain so as long as fit for 
use. In addition to the marvelous advantage of 
its white color it is even more robust and vigor- 
ous in habit, and grows larger shoots, and fully 
as many of them, as the Conover’s Colossal. 
Market-gardeners, growers for canneries and 
amateurs, should give this great acquisition a 
thorough trial. 
Palmetto. A very early variety. Even, regu- 
lar size; of excellent quality. 
Rhubarb, or Pie Plant 
This deserves to be ranked among the best early products of the garden. It affords the earli- 
est material for fine pies and fresh table sauce, continues long in use, and is valuable for canning. 
Make the ground rich and deep and thus secure a more tender growth. 
