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'T H EC RTJHAL NEW-YORKER 
August 29, 
Ruralisms 
The Pkicki.y Wild Gooseberry of 
Eastern North America, Ribes Cynos- 
bati, appears to possess considerable 
merit for breeding purposes, though it 
heretofore has been little used for the 
purpose. This species • is abundantly 
found in wooded, rocky hills and moun¬ 
tain ranges over a wide extent of ter¬ 
ritory, and was occasionally cultivated 
in early times. The fruits are vari¬ 
able, dull red or dark purple when ripe, 
almost invariably of good flavor, and 
range in size from one-fourth to half 
an inch in diameter. They arc usually 
very spiny, though almost smooth- 
fruited plants have been discovered. 
The bush is less thorny than other na¬ 
tive gooseberries, rather sprawling in 
habit, with thin but resistant foliage, 
and is generally very productive after 
attaining fruiting size. While two or 
three old cultivated varieties show 
traces of Cynosbati parentage the first 
authentic hybrids between this species 
and garden kinds appear to have been 
made by Professor William Saunders of 
the Ottawa Experiment Station. One 
of the most promising, produced by 
blending Cynosbati with Red \\ arring- 
ton, a high-flavored European variety, 
has been grown for years in the Rural 
Grounds. It is regularly productive, 
and the large, dark red berries are of 
excellent quality, though rather too 
spiny for pleasant eating. Many seed¬ 
ling and hybrid varieties of Cynosbati 
have been grown on the Rural Grounds, 
starting from a vigorous but small- 
fruited wild plant obtained years ago 
from North Carolina. We have now 
reached the fourth generation, and have 
plants showing Cynosbati characteris¬ 
tics, but bearing berries larger than 
Downing, both smooth and spiny, of 
high quality, green and yellow in color 
as well as purple when ripe. Some of 
these are blends of at least four species 
and three of the largest fruited garden 
varieties. The season of ripening var¬ 
ies from medium to very late, a few of 
the bushes carrying berries in good 
condition August 15. Ibis late ripen¬ 
ing promises to be a valuable feature 
greatly prolonging the gooseberry sea¬ 
son. Other attractive qualities are the 
uniform good health of the bushes and 
the mildew-resisting qualities of the 
foliage. No disease has troubled the 
seedlings and the only pest so far noted 
is the imported currant worm, which 
is so readily controlled by 1 ellebore or 
Paris-green. The berries are carried 
on long stems, rendering picking easy 
and rapid. Thorns are few, and soon 
become blunt on the older wood. Even 
the spiny berries sell well when ripe to 
buyers fond of dessert gooseberries, as 
the fine flavor is much appreciated. I he 
defects so far observed are the spread¬ 
ing habit of the bushes and slowness of 
propagation, the tested varieties not 
rooting well from cuttings, but show¬ 
ing a tendency to increase by layers. 
Established plants make good growth, 
sending up shoots several feet high and 
would doubtless be well fitted for wall 
training. Illustrations of some of our 
improved varieties have appeared in 
past issues of The R. N.-Y. 
Gooseberry Mildew Abroad. —Amer¬ 
ican gooseberry mildew has lately ap¬ 
peared as before noted, in several 
European countries, causing great 
havoc in plantations of this highly ap¬ 
preciated fruit. So susceptible is the 
European gooseberry to the disease 
that it is the general opinion of grow¬ 
ers and mycologists that the culture 
must be abandoned unless efficient 
means of controlling the pest are 
found. Nothing less than destruction 
of infected plants and repeated spray¬ 
ings with potassium sulphide solution of 
suspected ones appear to avail in stay¬ 
ing the disease, but those acquainted 
with the elusive nature of fungus af¬ 
fections have little confidence that it 
will ever be eradicated where it has 
once gained a foothold. British au¬ 
thorities are taking the most extreme 
measures, even to the extirpation of 
infected plantations, with partial com¬ 
pensation for loss to owners. That the 
gooseberry is an important fruit crop 
is attested by the acreage in a single 
English district, which totals over 6,000 
acres, or nearly 10 square miles in ex¬ 
tent. The labor bill alone for caring 
for the gooseberry plantations in the 
County of Kent is computed at $300,- 
000 annually. The entire industry is 
threatened, and the local agricultural 
boards are to be commended for tak¬ 
ing vigorous, if not particularly hope¬ 
ful steps to save it. 
American Kinds Resistant. —While 
Ribes grossularia, the European 
gooseberry, is admittedly unable to 
cope with the form of mildew native to 
this country, our most promising 
species, R. Oxyacanthoides, R. Cynos¬ 
bati and R. gracile are highly resis¬ 
tant from long association with the or¬ 
ganism, and all are capable, as demon¬ 
strated by the Rural Grounds experi¬ 
ments, of developing by selection and 
hybridization, varieties bearing fruits 
of good quality approaching the size 
of the European kinds, while retaining 
the desired disease-resisting quality. 
Unless better methods of controlling 
mildew are soon found than those at 
present in use, recourse must be had to 
these resistant species or gooseberry 
culture will languish. It is now evi¬ 
dent that resistant varieties of the 
highest excellence can be bred, and it 
is likely they will in due time be wanted 
for exotic as well as home planting. 
A Good Philippine Lily. —As com¬ 
monly grown the Philippine trumpet lily 
bears one or at most two blooms. On 
page 335, R. N.-Y. for April 11 , 1908, 
an illustration shows the garden effect 
of a bed of these fine lilies. The 
blooms are so massive in form, elegant 
in outline and pure in color as well as 
agreeable in fragrance, that little is left 
to be desired. The bulbs are not sup¬ 
posed to be able to endure hard freez¬ 
ing, and should be taken u,. in October 
like the Gladiolus, and wintered in dry 
sand in a cool cellar. I he culture is 
otherwise very simple; almost any well- 
drained soil of moderate fertility suit¬ 
ing them. The bulbs under trial all 
bloomed to perfection in early August, 
and though the plants were dwarfed by 
the long drought the flowers were full- 
sized, some being eight inches long. 
They endure in good condition 10 to 12 
days and are excellent for cutting. The 
Ohio growers have been marketing 
these great fragrant white trumpets by 
the thousand. It is said, however, that 
the wholesale florists do not greatly ap¬ 
prove of them, as the buds do not al¬ 
ways open well after storage. I' or 
local, immediate or home use they are, 
without doubt, of great value. We 
have previously noted the vigor of this 
handsome species and the freedom of 
the present stock of bulbs from the 
prevailing disease that weakens most 
white florist’s lilies. It is rare that 
bulbs of the Bermuda lily, Longiflor- 
um or Candidum can be forced the 
second time, and losses on the best of 
fresh stock are serious indeed. We 
have bloomed bulbs of the Philippine 
lily three successive Winters under 
glass and had stronger plants and 
more blooms each season. Fig. 310, 
page 679, is a portrait of a plant bear¬ 
ing four trumpets. The species is said 
rarely to produce more than five blooms 
even under ideal conditions. r \ his plant 
grew 26 inches high and was a strik¬ 
ing object, but on the whole not more 
desirable than the ordinary ones with 
their single graceful flower. Hybrids 
between the Philippine lily and the best 
form of Japan Longiflorum grown at 
Washington, are claimed to be very 
promising, combining the good fea¬ 
tures of both species. Evidently there 
is a promising future for this fine ori¬ 
ental lily. w. v. F. 
Put both in and mix 
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