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GOOSEBERRIES, continued 
Smith’s Improved. Large, light green, firm. Moderately vigorous and 
exceedingly productive. Requires good soil, and is unsurpassed for table u Se 
and cooking. 
Chautauqua. This white Gooseberry is of the finest quality and size and 
excels in vigor and yield. Probably a seedling of some English sort. ’ The 
bush of the Chautauqua is a very vigorous, stout, stiff, upright grower It 
should not be planted closer than 4 by 6 feet apart. Its leaves are large giossv 
and dark green. Its fruit is of a beautiful color, perfectly free of spines and 
hair, veined and translucent, averaging in size 1 to iff inches in diameter. It 
is rather thick-skinned, but very sweet and of exquisite flavor. 
GRAPES 
Plant 8 feet apart. No fruit gives more satisfactory returns for the care 
bestowed upon them. They require a deep, rich, well-drained soil. They can be 
trained on stakes, but a wire trellis is found the most satisfactory. Prune closely 
each spring, before the buds break, leaving but two or three eyes of the past year’s 
wood. Wood-ashes and ground bone are excellent fertilizers. 
BLACK 
Concord. A large, compact, shouldered bunch ; berries large, black and 
of excellent flavor. One of the most popular and desirable sorts. 
Moore’s Early. Very large bunch, and large berry, bluish black, sweet 
and of excellent flavor. Ripens very early. 
Worden. Bunch large and shouldered; berry large, juicy and sweet, with 
excellent flavor. This sort resembles Concord, but ripens much later. A 
good variety for any purpose. 
RED 
Brighton. Bunch large and shouldered; berry medium, sweet, tender 
and slightly aromatic. Ripens early. 
Catawba. Bunch medium and shouldered; berry large, sweet and aro¬ 
matic. An excellent sort and one of the most popular. 
Delaware. Bunch small and very compact; berry small, sweet and aro¬ 
matic. An early sort and quite popular. 
WHITE 
Geneva. Bunch medium; berry of good size, thin-skinned, sweet and 
delicious. One of the newer sorts and of excellent quality. 
Green Mountain. Bunches of good size and heavily shouldered; berry 
medium, greenish white, sweet, juicy and tender. An excellent variety and 
very hardy. 
Niagara. Bunch large and shouldered; berry large, greenish yellow, 
sweet, juicy and tender. A popular and productive variety. 
Pocklington. Bunch large and compact, sometimes shouldered: berry 
ar f c ’ golden yellow, juicy and of excellent flavor. A seedling of Concord, 
and one of the best. 
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