ON FREEING GOOSEBERRY TREES FROM MOSS. 
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open to himself, or any friend who may wish to publish anything 
further on the subject.—E d.] 
Out-door Cultivation of the Vine. —“The annual dinner of 
the Society for Cultivating the Vine in the open Air, according to the 
suggestions of Air. Clement Hoare, of Sidlesham, took place at the 
Dolphin Inn, on Friday, at Chichester.” 
Sir,—The above paragraph, extracted from the Brighton Guardian, 
would seem to imply that the gentleman therein mentioned has some 
particular and advantageous mode of managing out-door vines. As I 
think there is a great deficiency of knowledge as to the best manner of 
cultivating this fruit out of doors, it would be gratifying to me, and, I 
should think, to many of your subscribers, to learn the peculiarities 
of Mr. Hoare’s management; and if you, or any of your correspond¬ 
ents, can give the required information, it would oblige an old 
subscriber. 
Suffolk, November 9th , 1835. 
On freeing Gooseberry Trees from Moss. —It is now some 
time since I addressed you on the subject of insects pernicious to fruit 
trees, when I promised to send you specimens of such as infest the gar¬ 
dens and fruit trees in this neighbourhood, and I am sorry to say it is 
too late to fulfil my promise till next spring, when I intend to devote 
myself to that object, and I will be particular in sending either draw¬ 
ings or real specimens of such as I am able to prove injurious, either to 
culinary vegetables or to the roots and flower-buds of fruit trees, to 
your publishers. I must beg to make a few remarks on the destruc¬ 
tion of moss on fruit trees, and particularly on the gooseberry, which 
has long been considered one of the finest dessert fruits, as well as most 
useful to the domestic gardener, and great care has been taken to bring 
it to that state of perfection which it has now reached in this part of 
the country, and I hope a few remarks which I may make will not 
prove useless. My gooseberry trees were always much infested with 
moss, which is generally thought to be injurious, and 1 was at a loss 
how to destroy it, till I read a recipe for that purpose in the Gar¬ 
dener’s Manual. The composition consists of the following ingredi¬ 
ents, in this proportion :—six pounds of quick lime and four ounces of 
flour of sulphur, mixed with water till thick as cream. This I applied 
by means of a brush to the stems and main branches of all my trees, 
which were covered over with a fine green moss. This mixture sets 
quite hard a few hours after it is applied, and is not removed by rain 
or watering the trees ; but as soon as the trees begin to grow, or about 
April, the mixture falls off, which is caused by the expansion of the 
bark, leaving the trees (as high as the mixture was applied) quite 
