and tender;
color, reddish-brown. Prodigious grower and bearer--none better known.
Free from mildew. Native of Massachusetts.

2. _Red Warrington._--Later and larger than the preceding; hangs long on
the bush without cracking, and improves in flavor.

3. _Woodward's Whitesmith_--is one of the best of the white varieties.

4. _Cleworth's White Lion._--Large and late; excellent.

5. _Collier's Jolly Angler_--is a good green gooseberry; fruit large,
excellent, and late.

6. _Early Green Hairy._--Very early; rather small; prolific.

7. _Buerdsill's Duckwing_--is a good, late, yellow gooseberry; large
fruit, and a fine-growing bush.

8. _Prophets Rockwood._--Very large fruit of excellent quality, ripening
quite early.

The foregoing list, giving two of each of the four colors, and early and
late, are all, we think, that need be cultivated. Many more varieties,
nearly equalling the above, may be selected; but we are not aware that
any improvement would be made. Downing gives the following list for a
garden:--

_Red._--Red Warrington, Companion, Crown Bob, London, Houghton's
Seedling.

_Yellow._--Leader, Yellow Ball, Catharine, Gunner.

_White._--Woodward's Whitesmith, Freedom, Taylor's Bright Venus, Tally
Ho, Sheba Queen.

_Green._--Pitmaston Green Gage, Thumper, Jolly Angler, Massey's Heart of
oak, Parkinson's Laurel.

Thus you have Downing's authority; his list includes most of those we
have recommended above. The varieties are less important than in most
fruits, provided only you get the large varieties of English gooseberry.
Proper cultivation will insure success. Whoever cultivates, only
tolerably well, the Houghton Seedling, will be sure to raise good
berries, free from mildew.

GRAFTING.

This is one of the leading methods of obtaining such fruits as we wish,
on stocks of such habits of growth and degrees of hardiness, as we may
desire. The stock will control, in some degree, the growth of the scion,
but leave the fruit mainly to its habits on its original tree. The
advantages of grafting are principally the following:--

Good varieties may be propagated very rapidly. A single tree may produce
a thousand annually, for a series of years. Large trees of worthless
fruit may be changed into any variety we please, and in a very short
time bear abundantly. Fruits not easily multiplied in any other way, can
be rapidly increased by grafting. Early bearing of seedlings can be
secured by grafting on bear