THE BUSH FRUITS.
Currants and gooseberries grow wild in both the Old and the New World, and are cultivated in a multitude of improved varieties. These are tart, spicy fruits, fine for jelly and jams, and for stewing, green or ripe. The largest gooseberries are the size of plums, and sweet enough to eat out of hand. The cherry currants are equally fine as dessert fruit in the natural state, when fully ripe.
We who have picked the small, but sprightly, green gooseberries of the woods, both the prickly and the smooth ones, know that no cultivated form, no matter how mild it is, can excel in rich flavor the sauce they make. It is worth while to grow wild gooseberries, in order to have them spiced for serving with roast fowl and game in winter.