THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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SULPHATE OF IRON TREATMENT OF GOOSEBERRY 
BUSHES 
The treatment that was given to the gooseberry bushes, 
or rather the land beneath them, was as follows: The date of 
api)lication was August. “The gooseberry bushes were 
badly infeeted with American Gooseberry Mildew, and in 
August, 1910, I gave them a dressing of sulphate of iron, 
finely ground, about i cwt. to iX cwt. per acre, evenly 
sown all over the ground covered by the bushes, and hoed it 
in, at the same time cutting off and burning all infected shoots 
before the mildew had much chance of spreading its spores.’’ 
The bushes were aftemards heavily manured in order to 
induce strong rank growth and so to give the mildew every 
chance to come again, but it did not appear. Again, this 
year, I heavily manured, but no mildew again, although in 
both years long rank shoots grew, just the sort the disease 
always fixes on if it does come. Many acres have now been 
done during the autumn, and the 1910 bushes will not be 
done again until next autumn in order to give the mildew a 
chance. 
We have all along advised the use of sulphate of iron on 
land under infected gooseberry bushes, and it would appear 
by this experiment that August is the best month for its 
application. There is little doubt that sulphate of iron has a 
corrosive effect on fungi, and that it does much to tone up 
fruit trees and bushes in general. We should hear less of 
silver leaf if more of this cheap chemical were used .—The 
Fruit Grower, London. 
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