Identifier: gardenforestjour91896sarg (find matches)
Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n asCluster, American, etc., which was introduced into cultivationmany years ago. It appears to belong purely to Ribes oxya-canthoides, which species takes its name from the resem-blance of its leaves to those of the English Hawthorn, aresemblance that is more noticeable, however, in the leaves ofthe Downing than in those of the Pale Red. Ribes oxycanthoides, to which most of the native culti- November ii, 1896.) Garden and Forest. 455 vated varieties belong, either partially or entirely, is morecommon in New England than in New York. Its rangeextends northward through Canada and westward to California.Its fruit is red or purplish, with smooth thin skin. It hasshorter stamens and broader calyx lobes than R. rotundifolium European Gooseberries. The slender branches arch or droopgracefully in marked contrast to the thick, straight branchesof the European R. Grossularia. Houghton resembles Pale Red very closely in foliage andfruit, but its habit of growth is less upright. Possibly it be-
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Fig. 59.—Vitis Doaniana.—See page 454. has, and it is also characterized by very short peduncles. Itis sometimes armed with short prickles between the nodes, orthe lower parts of the canes may be thickly beset with prickles.The prickles which occur beneath the axils of the leaves areshort and slender as compared with those which characterize longs purely to the oxyacanthoidrs species, but a study ofseedlings of known parentage which 1 have grown suggeststhat it is a hybrid between Ribcs oxyacanthoides and R. l<ros-sularia. Pure seedlings of it grown here have not yet fruited,but they show no marked Grossularia character so far as foli- 45^ Garden and Forest. (Number 455. age and habit of growth is concerned. Nevertheless, two ofits well-known seedlings, Downing and Smith, are clearlyhybrids between R. oxyacanthoides and R. Grossularia, and Ihave some crosses ot Pale Red by Houghton which showGrossularia ancestry, but the pure Pale Red seedlings do not. Downing, which is general

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