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trees transplanted every year, with plenty of roots are the “ stock ” in this u trade,” 
but I cannot follow the fancy into all the details and secrets of the craft. Some 
of the largest-sized Gooseberries I have ever seen were grown by an amateur at 
Birmingham, and after planting in rich prepared compost, these were watered 
with soap-suds. It is this style of culture that I would now recommend,—viz., 
growing such young plants only, but instead of growing them in the open ground 
to grow them in pots, so as to be able to house the bush when the berries are 
ripe, instead of carrying a penthouse to the garden, as I have mentioned. Any 
light room not having draughts or exposed to wind will do to keep these pot- 
plants in, and they must not be watered, although they may be plunged in any 
moist medium like old tan. 
Of course, a glass-house, or an orchard-house, would be best, but I am not 
elevating the Currant and Gooseberry to that level, but would fain give the small 
amateur a chance of showing what the fancy can do, by not only growing large 
berries, but preserving them for the great festival of Christmas, when they would 
be appreciated. It has long been the fashion in the north to grow Gooseberries 
and Currants on low walls, sometimes to get the fruit early, and sometimes to get 
it late, on walls facing the north, and east, and west, and matting them up; but 
after all, the flower-pot is a simpler plan, and more systematic than the pent¬ 
house and the wall. Still, how many idle walls do we see that might be adorned 
with such useful fruits as the Currant and Gooseberry. I have elsewhere stated 
how garden walks may be arched over, and “ long-drawn aisles ” of fruit-trees 
and shrubs made to adorn our cottage homes, as well as the homes that have 
more pretensions to horticulture.—A. Forsyth, Salford. 
THE PERENNIAL CHEIRANTHUS. 
I HE genus Cheiranthus supplies us with some invaluable hardy spring flovver- 
) ing plants, which are very useful for decoration at that season. But I 
\ do not now intend to deal with the ordinary biennial Wall-flower. I wish 
v a) to bring before the readers of the Florist and Pomologist the claims of 
such perennial forms as C. ochroleucus , C. Marshallii , and C. Dillenianus. 
All three have a dwarf close habit of growth, the most common being 
C. ochroleucus , which, when it is allowed to establish itself, makes a dense 
low clump, and flowers with wonderful profusion during the early summer. It 
should find a place in every mixed border, and in the rock garden. It is a vigorous 
grower, and can be readily propagated by root-division. The terminal racemes of 
flowers are of a pale sulphur-yellow colour. C. Marshallii is said to be a hybrid 
between C. ochroleucus and the old well-known annual Erysimum Peroffsldauum. 
It is less robust in habit than the first of these, and it has become somewhat 
scarce in gardens. The flowers are of quite a rich hue of golden-orange, and it is 
very charming when an established clump gets into full bloom. It can be propagated 
by cuttings, but unless carefully done, this is a somewhat precarious venture. I 
find the best mode of propagating it to be, to cut away the flower-stems as soon 
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