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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9598, 24 August 1894, Page 5

In a communication to the French Academic des Sciences, M. Lucien Daniel concludes that graft hybridisation is possible in the case of certain herbaceous plants, which may be endowed with new alimentary qualities by grafting them on plants better endowed in this respect that themselves, and by sowing the seeds produced by the graft. The results hitherto obtained are most striking in the case of the Cruciferse. According to a competenb authority, currants and gooseberries are grown with great ease, and need only to be kept free from weeds. plants are readily obtained by making cuttings in autumn, six inches long, which may be planted at once, or kept in the cellar in moist sand, and planted in the spring. The plants need renewing every six or eight years. Better fruit is grown on young, than on old bushes. To secure large crops, the bushes have to be pretty severely pruned each year. The rust or mildew of the gooseberry is now quite completely controlled by spraying the bushes with a solution of potassium sulphide, one ounce to tvro