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Plants of medium size and density, vigorous upright, productive, healthy, young shoots medium in thickness and number, dark brownish red almost entirely overspread with gray scarf-skin, prockles variable in length of medium thickness and number. Flowers midseason, large, singly.Fruit early variable in size and shape, averaging large, roundish oval, deep, dull wine-red, with lines and flecks of lighter color becoming dark red at full maturity, skin variable, nearly smooth, or slightly hairy, glaucous of medium thickness, tough, translucent, flesh yellowish green juicy, tender, pleasantly sprightly to sweet, quality very good. - SFNY 1925.R. Grossularia 'Whinham's Industry'By common consent Industry is given the place of honor as the best of the European gosseberries in America. It is one of the most vigorous varieties of its class; rather more productive than any other European; while by no means free from mildew, it often passes through a season without much mildew, and when infected, the fungus is usually readily controlled by spraying. The large claret-red berries, rich, sweet, and delicately piquant, are about the most inviting of all gooseberries to eye and palate. Picking must not be hurried, if color and taste are to reach the condition where nothing requisite is wanting. Industry has been grown in America for at least a half century, and no doubt, would be grown more generally now, were it not difficult to propagate. It is an old English sort. Plants of medium size, vigorous, upright, productive; canes rather straight and stout. Leaves of medium size, thick, dark green, glabrous except on ribs and veins. Flowers midseason, large, borne singly. Fruit early, large, 1.25 inches in diameter, round-oblong, sometimes pear-shaped, smooth or nearly so, deep claret red with lines of light flecks; flesh yellowish-green, firm, juicy, mild subacid, nearly sweet; quality good; seeds medium in size, numerous. Hedrick, U.P. 1922. Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits. The Macmillan Company, NY. p. 308-309.----------
= Whinham's Industry, Rote Triumphbeere