Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . rig. 70. Industry, the European Fig. 71, Pale Red, the American type. 396 BUSH-FBUITS HISTORY AND FUTURE Like the currant, the gooseberry appears not to havebeen known to the ancients, and it is uncertain whenit first began to receive garden culture. Although longcommon among the hedges and woods of England, it isthought by most authors not to have been is reported, as first mentioned by British authors,about the beginning of the sixteenth
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . rig. 70. Industry, the European Fig. 71, Pale Red, the American type. 396 BUSH-FBUITS HISTORY AND FUTURE Like the currant, the gooseberry appears not to havebeen known to the ancients, and it is uncertain whenit first began to receive garden culture. Although longcommon among the hedges and woods of England, it isthought by most authors not to have been is reported, as first mentioned by British authors,about the beginning of the sixteenth century. Geo. * states that Tusser, in his Five HundredPoints of Good Husbandry, published during 1557,mentions the gooseberry as then among garden edition of Gerardes Herbal, published in1636, says: There be divers sorts of the gooseberries,some greater, others lesse; some round, others long,and some of a red color. * * * The sorts of goose-berries are these: the long greene, the great yellowish,the blew, the great round red, the long red, and theprickl}^ gooseberr}^ The further statement is madethat These plants doe grow in London gardens a
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