03 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION, November II, 1850. 
firm, ripe wood of the same year's growth. The beet 
i time to make them is as soon as the leaves turn yellow, 
which, in most seasons, occurs about the last week in 
October. Observe, after the wood is ripe, the sooner 
! they are cut off, formed, and planted, the more certain 
; will be success achieved. The way to make them is to 
cut off the lower end of each cutting horizontally, that 
is, right across; then cut close off all the buds excepting 
the uppermost three or four. The reason for this is to 
prevent the production of suckers, which are always 
injurious and troublesome. The cuttings may either be 
planted with the spade or the dibber, but should always 
be made very firm in the ground. They should stand 
out of the ground a few inches, so as to form a stem 
J below the first shoots. This enables the grower to form 
a neat, handsome bush clear of the ground. 
To form standards, the leading shoot should be tied 
to a stake the first year, and all the others pruned close 
off. It will most likely throw out several side-shoots; 
these should all be stopped during the summer, but 
| plenty of foliage retained. The second year, if good 
J growth has been made, this shoot will be at least three 
feet high. Then trim off all the side-shoots excepting 
three or four at the top. Prune these back to three or 
four buds, and they will shoot forth in the spring and 
form the head. 
If the grower is desirous of propagatiug many sorts for 
sale of the plants, it is an excellent plan to plant two or 
three of each kind in a corner of his garden, and grow 
these especially to produce cuttings only: for such a pur¬ 
pose any weak, unsightly plants may be made use of. 
They should be planted slanting, so that the branches 
may reach the soil, to be spread out aud pegged down. 
Every joint will strike root, and every bud will send up a 
strong shoot. These are what nurserymen denominate 
stools. The ground should be made very rich with a 
compost of decayed turf and well-rotted dung in equal 
j parts. In such a soil the shoots will grow eighteen 
inches or two feet long, and such shoots make most 
excellent cuttings. The ordinary grower, for his own 
planting, will, of course, be satisfied with such cuttings 
as his plants will afford. 
EARLY GOOD-ELAVOURED DESSERT VARIETIES. 
Champagne, red; Champagne, yellow; Early Green 
Hairy; Golden Drop, the earliest; Ostrich, white; 
Whitesmith. 
LATE DESSERT VARIETIES. 
Coe’s Late Red ; Terry’s Late Red; Warrington, red ; 
Pitmaston Green Gage; Wandering Girl, white; Viper, 
yellow. 
BOTTLING VARIETIES. 
Rumbullion; Green-Gage; Warrington. 
PRESERVING VARIETIES. 
Champagne, red; Ironmonger, black; Old Rough 
Red; Warrington, red. 
GREAT BEARERS. 
Red. —Crown Bob; Keen’s Seedling; Warrington. 
White. — Eagle ; Wellington’s Glory ; Whitesmith. 
Green. —Rumbullion; Profit; Glenton Green. Yellow. — 
Globe; Husbandman; Rookwood. 
LANCASHIRE PRIZE VARIETIES. 
Red. —London, 37 dwts. 7 grs.; ^Companion, 31 dwts. 
71 grs.; ^Slaughterman, 30 dwts.; -Lion’s Provider, 
26 dwts. 22 grs.; ^Conquering Hero, 28 dwts. 9 grs.; 
j -Dan’s Mistake, 29 dwts. 8 grs. 
Yellow. —V-Catherina, 32 dwts. 8 grs.; -Leader, 27 dwts. 
' -8 grs.; Drill, 28 dwts. 15 grs.; Leveller, 22 dwts. 12 grs.; 
| -Peru, 30 dwts.; *Goldfinder, 26 dwts. 16 grs. 
| Green.—Thumper, 28 dwts. 13 grs.; -Gretna Green, 
27 dwts. 15 grs.; Queen Victoria, 26 dwts. 6 grs.; 
*Rough Green, 27 dwts. 19 grs.; ^General, 27 dwts. 
14 grs.; ^Turnout, 26 dwts. 21 grs. 
White. —Freedom, 28 dwts. 15 grs.; Queen of Trumps, 
30 dwts.; ^Snowdrop, 34 dwts. 5 grs.; * Antagonist, 
31 dwts. 14 grs.; -Snowdrift, 23 dwts. 15 grs.; -Lady 
Leicester, 30 dwts. 4 grs. 
For the selection of the prize-winning varieties I am 
indebted to our old correspondent, Mr. John Turner, of 
Neepsend, near Sheffield, an excellent judge and good 
grower. He assures me that those marked with an 
asterisk are very handsome fruit, good bearers, and well 
flavoured when perfectly ripe. I might have extended 
the list very considerably, but the number (six of each 
colour), is quite sufficient for a moderate grower. I 
would advise such a grower to grow at least a couple of 
each variety except Leveller, the price of which is 
Is. 6d.; all the others may be had at fid. each. The 
weights quoted are taken from the Manchester Goose¬ 
berry Grower’s Register for 1852. Some of the sorts 
have been grown much heavier since then. Those not 
marked with an asterisk are indispensable to a grower 
that intends to exhibit for prizes. 
The reader will perceive that the growers use troy 
weight in weighing this fruit. T. Appleby. 
THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSION. 
By the Authoress of “ My Flowers." 
One of the most profitable employments of the mind is to 
look back upon the years that have passed, and to mark the 
changes and “ chances,” as man calls them, that have 
happened to those among whom our lot has been cast. It 
is amazing, and humbling, too, to consider the ways of God 
with man, and to trace the causes which lead to the effects 
we see. What we call misfortunes and reverses are called, 
by the Word of God, the punishments due to our sins ; for 
“ the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy,” and does 
“not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.” If we 
consider our own ways we shall find that troubles have 
followed either sins or follies, and that to our own handiwork 
may be traced the events that press heavily upon us. Some¬ 
times we cannot, sometimes we will not, see this; but the 
strongest proof of its truth is, that our neighbours can 
see it for us. Now, it is a painful employment to lay bare 
our own misdoings. We quietly leave that for other pens to 
unfold; but we see and can point out causes and conse¬ 
quences around us that may instruct and benefit others 
besides ourselves. 
The kind friend who has so often lent his powerful aid in 
doing good to others by exhortation and warning against 
the evils incident to a fallen and corrupt nature, has again 
furnished us with an instructive and really terrific sketch of 
the path of a transgressor’, which I thankfully place before 
our readers’ eyes, beseeching them to lay their hands upon 
their own hearts as they follow the affecting narrative. 
“ It does not require a man to live to a patriarchal age, or 
his head even to bear the snows of mature years, to enable 
him to witness many ups and downs among his contemporary 
friends and neighbours. How many a man do we know 
now who bears about him the unmistakable stamp of poverty, 
who, twenty years ago, was a well-dressed beau, the envy of 
aspiring young gentlemen, and, perhaps, the admired of 
admiring young ladies ! Alas, what a change there is now ! 
How listless the step that then was vigorous and strong! 
how faltering the gait that then was all elasticity and spring! 
how subdued the expression of the face that then was all 
confidence and smiles! But how seldom does such a 
descent take place, unless helped on by the sins, or im¬ 
prudence, or recklessness of the fallen man himself! I give 
this as an introduction to a narration of facts bearing upon 
the subject. 
“ Jarnes Anderson, when I knew him about fifteen years ago, 
was a gentlemanly, intelligent-looking young man, the son 
of parents who held an important position in a large pro¬ 
vincial town, hut who had failed, in the plenitude of their 
prosperity, to lay by for the exigencies of old age, and who 
left to their son little more than the advantages of an 
excellent education. 
