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Currants and Gooseberries 
Continued 
The Gooseberry when well cared for pro¬ 
duces tremendous crops, often 400 to 500 
bushels per acre, and at $3.00 per bushel 
would sell for $1200.00 to $1500.00 per acre. 
The Gooseberry requires the same cultiva¬ 
tion and treatment for worms as the currant. 
The worms attack the gooseberry before the 
currant bushes, and should be closely watched 
as soon as the growth gets a few inches long. 
Dust or sprinkle the leaves with hellebore 
as soon as the first worm is discovered, or 
about the 10th or 12th of May. These worms 
come three times during the season, and should 
be closely watched through the summer. 
Downing—Fruit smooth, larger than Hough¬ 
ton, roundish, light-green with distinct veins; 
flesh rather soft, juicy and very good. The 
most valuable American variety. 
Pearl—A very productive and perfectly 
healthy variety, quite free from mildew. 
Pearl is a favorite and hard to beat; bushes 
planted but one year are said to yield three 
quarts of berries. A robust, vigorous grower, 
with berries larger than Downing, and of ex¬ 
cellent quality. 
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Asparagus 
Asparagus usually sells at a good price, and, 
being ready for market in April and May, 
the income derived from it is especially ap¬ 
preciated at that time of the year. It is 
usually planted on light soil to have it early, 
though it can be easily grown on all good 
garden soils. The sprouts are not usually cut 
until the second or third year after planting, 
except to mow down the canes in the fall. 
The roots will give good crops for from 15 
to 20 years, selling at $100 to $200 per acre. 
Plant the roots in the spring or fall, from 
4 to 6 inches deep, covering with only 3 inches 
of soil at first, and filling in the trenches as 
the plants grow. 
Barr’s Mammoth — Very large, tender 
stalks, light color and very early. 
Conover’s Colossal —Very large, makes 
rapid growth; planted mostly by market- 
gardeners; very productive. 
Giant Argenteuil —The finest and most 
profitable of all. Stalks of immense size, 
very bright and attractive, sweet and tender. 
Comes into cutting condition much earlier 
than others. Very reliable and a sure money- 
getter. 
Industry 
Josselyn (Red Jacket) —A new American 
variety, for which the introducer claims great 
productiveness, hardiness, excellence of qual¬ 
ity and freedom from mildew, it having been 
tested seven years beside other sorts, all of 
which, except Red Jacket, were badly af¬ 
fected.. Berry large and smooth. 
Industry —A variety of foreign origin 
which, in most northern portions of the United 
States, does well, and, under favorable condi¬ 
tions, is exceptionally free from mildew. 
Moore’s Cross-Bred —This originated with 
J. B. Moore, of Massachusetts, who exhibited 
at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society a 
bunch of this variety containing 12 stalks 
weighing 4 lbs. 6 % ozs. It retains the heads 
until the stalks are quite long, while for ten¬ 
derness and eating quality it is excelled by 
none. It is particularly recommended for 
New England. 
Palmetto —Of Southern origin, a variety of 
excellent quality, early, very large, very pro¬ 
lific; all who have used it pronounce it ahead 
of any other. 
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