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Show PRUNE GOOSEBERRY TO BUSH Plant Should Be Reduced to the Number Num-ber of Plants That Will Grow in Vigorous Condition.; (By C."l LEWIS. Ohio Experiment Station.) Sta-tion.) Prune the gooseberry to a bush. Berries Ber-ries are borne on the two, three and four-year-old wood, but occasionally the fruit grows too small on the four-year-old wood and it should be pruned out. The currant bears most of its fruit on the two and three-year-old wood. All canes of either of these fruits should he cut out when, they be. gin to droop toward the ground, and all canes that are weak. The plant should be reduced to the number of plants that will grow in a vigorous condition. When canes tend to grow gnarly, old and weak, they should be removed. The entir'tf-planting should be renewed In from six to ten years. While the bushes wiil fruit for a longer time, the fruit tends to grow too small to be profitable. , |