CULTURE OF GOOSEBERRIES. 
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ARTICLE IV. 
ON THE CULTURE OF GOOSEBERRIES, 
BX MR. MOSES BRISTOW, 
Gardener to - Munday , Esq. Burton - on -the- Wou Ids, Leicestershire. 
Perhaps no fruit has improved more by cultivation than the goose¬ 
berry. There is scarcely a good garden without a selection of both 
the small and large sorts. Some of the small fruited varieties are 
superior in flavour to the large ones, but this is far from being gene¬ 
ral, for, with a few exceptions, the large sorts are preferable, being, 
in many cases, of superior flavour, and they are ready for tarts much 
earlier than the small ones. Probably some of the small ones are 
better in cold and wet situations or seasons. 
There is a considerable difference in the properties of the different 
sorts. Some are remarkable for size, as the Eagle, Roaring Lion, 
&c.; others for beauty, as the Top-Sawyer, Bonny-Lass, See. and 
some for the superiority of their flavour, as Champagne, Woodward’s 
Whitesmith, &c. There are some which ripen their fruit very early, 
as the Huntsman, Top-Sawyer, &c. others are ripe very late, as 
Warrington, Duckwing, See. some produce amazing large crops, 
whilst Others produce comparatively few, but of a very large size. 
In making a selection, for either a large or small garden, I would 
chuse some for their flavour, and others for their size, others for ear¬ 
liness, and some for their lateness, so that a succession of fruit might 
be obtained from an early to a very late period. 
Very much depends on the situations, seasons, soils, pruning and 
training, and last, and probably the most, on kinds. 
Gooseberry trees are sometimes trained to a sort of trellis made 
with stakes, stuck in the ground, about six inches apart. In this 
case the trees are planted about four feet distant from each other, on 
the border. An horizontal branch is trained within three or four 
inches from the ground, from each side of the main stem, and from 
these horizontal ones, a perpendicular branch is conducted up each 
stake. This mode evidently saves room, and as in some cases, 
where the stakes are iron, and consequently thin and small, the trees 
look very neat. 
In suitable situations, with care, gooseberries will continue to bear 
abundant crops for many years. 
The mode of training practised amongst amateurs, to produce 
large fruit for show, is, l believe, as follows : — It is well known, that 
