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It turns out that smaller plants tend to leaf out earlier than bigger plants and gooseberry #2 was generating better low-chill seedlings.All of my R. divaricatum X Old World gooseberry type seedlings and my divaricatum X missouriense and divarcatum X Abundance and Pixwell and divaricatum X nivalis seedlings got severe root rot. They are growing so slow that they all look about the same. One of my divaricatum X white-stemmed gooseberry seedlings that I grew from a small batch of seeds from years ago seems to be root-root resistant, as are a small pecentage of my divaricatum X Malling Invicta seedlings and a larger percentage of my divaricatum X Oregon Champion seedlings. A small pecentage of my gooseberry #1 seedlings produce more robust growth than their sisters and they also seem to be slower to break dormancy. The plants I am sending you represent my only thicker, slower seedling that is also resistant to root rot. I imagine that my thicker seedlings are likely to produce bigger berries. Also the original specimen produced a few flowers this year and the buds are slightly fuzzy. I expected the buds to be completely glabrous because the green-fruited, mildew resistant clones at your repository looked so hairless that they appeared to be constructed from wax. (I'm thinking of Robustenta and Mucurines.) So I don't think the Invicta side of the parentage include the chromosomes with the mildew resistance linked with the European fruit quality.Nothing about this plant suggests that it can help my breeding program but but I also don't think I'm ever going to come up with a bigger, better first generation hybrid. Witness that I am naming this clone after myself, the Cowcester, after my last name and the Worcesterberry. David Cowan, March 18, 2010

Receieved as Ribes grossularia 'Cowester'

This accession was collected under the auspices of a bilateral agreement between the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Foods, Japan, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Reseach Service, USA, prepared in May 2004.

Fruits on long strigs, as many as 15 to 20 fruit per strig. Most of the fruits were green when collected. Some were just beginning to turn black.

The HFRI had Pinus strobus near by so there was ample opportunity for white pine blister rust to develop on susceptible plants. This species is highly susceptible to this disease. The Ribes leaves were covered with uredinia on the abaxial surfaces.

This accession was collected under the auspices of a bilateral agreement between the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Foods, Japan, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Reseach Service, USA, prepared in May 2004.

This accession was collected under the auspices of a bilateral agreement between the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Foods, Japan, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Reseach Service, USA, prepared in May 2004.

Fruit had glandular hairs on them and were sticky to the touch.