DESSERT GOOSEBERRIES
Where there is a demand for goose* berries for dessert (says the ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,’ # London), the following varieties might be chosen for their richly flavoured, although not large, fruit:—Langley Gage, of upright growth, has smooth, downy, green fruit, and is quite one of the best. Another excellent green variety is llosebery, with smooth, thin-skinned fruits of very sweet and rich flavour; it is free-growing and a good cropper. Beauty is a good red-fruited dessert gooseberry, and is one of the latest to ripen, of moderate vigour, and rather spreading habit. Speedwell is another good red-fruited and richly-flavoured variety; while Keens’s Seedling may also be recommended; this gooseberry is a strong grower, but inclined to droop, and is best treated as a pyramid or cordon. Golden Drop is one of the best yellow-fruited dessert gooseberries, of upright and sturdy growth, but subject to mildew. Yellow Ball, although a very old variety, has richlyflavoured fruit; and White Swan and Transparent are two of the best whitefruited dessert gooseberries.
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Evening Star, Issue 20688, 10 January 1931, Page 17
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168DESSERT GOOSEBERRIES Evening Star, Issue 20688, 10 January 1931, Page 17
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