early, large, globular berry, though some are oblong; green, with white veins; of a sweet and agreeable taste.
14. Fox's Green Goose, is likewise unusually large; globular; covered with hair; and of an exceedingly fine flavour.
15. Mill's Langley Green, vies in size with the two preceding sorts, but is of an oval form: its taste is delicious; and the leaf is distinguished from other varieties by its indented shape.
16. Johnson's Green Willow, a moderately large, oblong berry; pointed near the stalk, and round towards the bloom: it is oval, smooth, and streaked with white veins.
17. Shelmardine's Gently-Green; a large, objong, and smooth berry.
Yellow and Amber-coloured.
18. Bell's Bright Farmer; a very large, oval, and elegant, early fruit; marked with bright-yellow veins: it is smooth, though a few hairs occasionally appear on the skin.
19. Blackley's Eclipse; a large, smooth berry; oval; yellow, with green veins; and of a savoury juice.
20. Bradshaw's Yellow-top, is globular; smooth, with afew hairs, and of early growth.
21. Clayton's Canary; a large, round, greenish-yellow berry; covered with hairs; and being of a good taste.
22. Mason's Golden Conqueror; a large, handsome, bright-yellow berry.
23. Stanley's Dolphin, a very early sort; being one of the largest and most esteemed: it is oval, greenish-yellow, and smooth.
24. Taylor's Nimrod, is also an early fruit, of an uncommonly large size; globular; without hair; of a dark-yellow shade, marked with bright-yellow veins: it has a transparent skin, and ripens about the middle of July.
Beside the varieties here specified, we find in a late catalogue, published by an eminent gardener, the following sorts enumerated under the head of New Gooseberries:
White: Beeman's White Elephant; and White Lily.
Yellow: Nonsuch; Wigley's Melon; Golden Lion; and Invincible.
Green: Anthony Triumph; Miss Bold; Nield's Green Gage; Mrs. Ewe; Royal George; and Montgomery.
Red: Black Prince; Black Conqueror; Robin Hood; Stafford's Hedge-hog; General Howe; and Supreme.
For an account of the most eligible and productive species of the Raspberry, as well as the Strawberry, we refer the reader to these articles, in the progress of the alphabet.
It will, however, not be superfluous, to remind the friends of gardening in this country, that the preceding arrangement and description of the different standard and dwarf fruit-trees, as well as of the espaliers, shrubbery, and fruit-bearing plants, is the result of experience communicated to the public by a German Orchardist. Hence we think it useful to remark, that though his statement, with regard to the nature and rearing of the various fruit-bearing vegetables before detailed, may be perfectly correct; yet the temperature of the British climate, when compared with that of the middle of Germany, naturally retards the
maturity