1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
647 
RURAL ISMS—Con tinued. 
list, I place the Columbus at the head. 
Houghton is too small. It takes too long 
to pinch off the ends of the small ber¬ 
ries to get them ready for use. The large 
berries sell for one-third more. The Red 
Jacket is a good berry, but has many 
thorns and suckers, and is likely to 
spread and lop on the ground. The 
Columbus holds up its heavy load of 
fruit, and is not as thorny as some. The 
Downing is a standard variety, produc¬ 
tive and of excellent quality, thin- 
skinned, and is generally well liked. I 
cannot see any difference between it and 
the Pearl. I have a berry that resembles 
the Columbus, which has been grown 
in a yard in Syracuse for 15 years. I 
have said that it is identical with the 
Columbus. It may be the Triumph. If 
it is, there is but a slight difference. 
The Columbus is retaining its foliage 
some better. It requires close inspec¬ 
tion to see any difference in fruit, 
growth of bush, or leaf. 
The largest berry is the Auburn, a 
variety brought from England to Au¬ 
burn, where it was renamed. It is i\ d 
when ripe, and as large as the Lombard 
plum. It is of good quality, thin-skinned 
for so large a berry. It is liable to 
crack when overripe. It has not shown 
any signs of mildew. This would sell 
well when ripe on fruit stands if put in 
pint boxes. The demand for gooseber¬ 
ries is yet limited ; but few like them 
or know how to use them. Gooseberries, 
to be a success in this climate, should be 
shaded in the middle of the day. The 
best manner of doing this is to grow 
under grape vines on a trellis which will 
give the shade when needed if the rows 
are run north and south. They are less 
liable to mildew when shaded or heavily 
mulched. I can grow as many bushels 
of Columbus gooseberries to the acre as 
of potatoes. I don’t say this to help 
sell the bushes, as I have none to sell. 
I lost one-third of my crop this year 
during the hot week by scalding in the 
sun. Many dropped on the ground that 
were not injured. I picked them up and 
sold them. The large berries sold for 
five cents per quart; the small ones sold 
slowly at three cents. chas. mills. 
Onondaga County, N. Y. 
With me, the Triumph gooseberry is 
much superior to the Columbus, in being 
twice as productive, and the fruit one- 
third larger. The Triumph'is, however, 
a much less vigorous grower than either 
the Columbus or Downing, and some sea¬ 
sons, loses its leaves in early summer, 
causing the fruit to scald and drop. Red 
Jacket is, also, a shy bearer thus far. 
The North Star currant is small and un¬ 
desirable. J. C. WILLIAMS. 
Essex County, N. J. 
R. N.-Y.—It does not seem to us that 
Mr. Williams can have the true Colum¬ 
bus. It is at the Rural Grounds fully 
as productive as it is desirable to have a 
gooseberry. 
I have both Triumph and Columbus 
gooseberries true to name, I believe 
(as they are from R. N.-Y. advertisers), 
and have been watching them endeavor¬ 
ing satisfactorily to answer your ques¬ 
tions for myself, inasmuch as I have seen 
the statement frequently made that the 
two varieties are synonymous. The fol¬ 
lowing are my impartial, comparative 
notes, which I hope may be of use to 
you. Triumph is quite a stocky, upright 
grower. Columbus is of slender growth, 
which arches, and when loaded with 
fruit droops to the earth, which may be 
an objection the large grower might 
raise ; but when mulched with straw in 
the home garden, as gooseberries should 
always be, it does not matter. Triumph 
has smaller foliage than Columbus, 
which mildewed miserably this season, 
while the fruit mildewed so badly as to 
be utterly worthless. Columbus foliage 
mildewed so little as to be hardly notice¬ 
able, while the fruit, which was large 
and fine, was not seriously injured. The 
heavy and continuous rains caused much 
of its fruit to split just as it was ripen¬ 
ing, and impaired the quality of that 
which did mature. Triumph did not 
mature a berry. It may interest you to 
know that the largest fruit this season 
was borne by Oregon Jumbo, a greenish 
white, ellipsoidal berry, some of which 
measured three inches in their smallest 
circumference. This may be due to the 
fact that it bore a light crop. It cracked 
so that I could not judge of its quality. 
It did not mildew seriou-ly. Red Jacket, 
the mildew-proof, mildews. The finest 
flavored fruit, according to my judg¬ 
ment, was produced by a variety I pro¬ 
cured under the name of Franklin Park, 
a dark amber-colored berry of variable 
size, small to above medium, fine pine¬ 
apple flavor, shape of Columbus. Mil¬ 
dews some. Has any one else tested 
this variety ? I have an even 30 varie¬ 
ties in my collection, besides some seed¬ 
lings, which latter are not specially 
promising, and must come out to make 
room for their betters. The English 
evince a knowledge of what good fruit 
is, in paying so much attention to the 
gooseberry, a fruit which merits it, as a 
fully ripe gooseberry is not excelled in 
richness of flavor by any other fruit of 
the temperate zone, kdwakd w. winsob 
Monmouth County, N. J. 
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G. E. B., Lakin, Kan.—I f there is any 
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high price at which it is quoted by seeds¬ 
men is considered, it does seem that they 
would sell it in its pure state. We use 
screenings mostly, and 15 to 20 pounds 
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the season is favorable. One can see 
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with absolutely nothing else growing 
where the Alfalfa does well. 
In reading the article of F. E. Daw- 
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S3edsmen, like most of us, are very 
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