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lyj OUNT HOPE NURSERIES • > • GOOSEBERRIES, ETC. 
GOOSEBERRIES. 
The bushes should be planted the same distance apart as currants. They should 
be annually and rather severely pruned by thinning all feeble and crowded branches. 
Mulch the same as currants. 
Downing. Fruit larger than 
Houghton : roundish, light green, 
with distinct veins ; skin smooth ; 
flesh rather soft, juicy and very good. 
Vigorous and productive. 
Houghton’s Seedling. A me- 
dium-sized American variety, which 
bears abundant and regular crops, and 
never mildews ; fruit smooth, red, 
tender and very good ; very valuable. 
No variety has yet been found that 
gives better satisfaction. 
Industry. The best English 
Gooseberry yet introduced ; of vigor- 
ous, upright growth ; a greater cropper 
than any known variety ; berries of 
the largest size and of most excellent 
flavor, both pleasant and rich ; color, 
when fully ripe, dark red. 
Smith’s Improved. Large, oval, 
liglit green, with bloom ; flesh moderately firm, sweet and good ; vigorous grower. 
ASPARAGUS. 
To make a good Asparagus bed, the plants may be set in fall or early spring. 
Prepare a piece of fine, loamy soil, to which has been 
added a liberal dressing of good manure. Select 2-year 
or strong t-year-old plants, and for a garden set in rows 
i8 to 20 inches apart, with plants lo to 12 inches apart in 
the row. Make a small mound of the soil, over which 
the roots should be evenly spread, so that the crown, 
when covered, shall be three inches below the surface of 
the ground. If planted in fall, the whole bed should be 
covered before winter sets in with two or three inches of 
coarse stable manure, which may be lightly forked 
in between the rows as soon as the ground is softened in 
the spring. 
Conover’s Colossal. A mammoth variety of 
vigorous growth, sending up from 15 to 20 sprouts, from 
I to 2 inches in diameter, each year ; color deep green ; 
crown very close. 
RHVBARB OR PIE PEAXT. 
This deserves to be ranked among the best early 
vegetables in the garden. It affords the earliest material 
for pies and tarts, continues long in use, and is valuable 
for canning. Make the border very rich and deep for 
this plant. 
Linnaeus. Large, early, tender and fine. The very 
best of all. 
Mt. Hope Nurseries. Tuba, Arizona, May p, '{17. 
Gentlemen — Trees arrived ou the 27th of April as nice as the day 
they were packed, and a finer lot of trees I never saw. I am just 
delighted with them. Mr. Johnston helped me unpack them. All 
who have seen them pronounce them the finest trees they ever 
Asparagus. saw sent to Arizona. Ashton Neueker. 
We Promise Weil, and Perform Kaithfully, 
