Specimen of a branch of scarlet gooseberry, ca.1920 (CHS-5448)

Specimen of a branch of scarlet gooseberry, ca.1920
Photograph of a specimen of a branch of scarlet gooseberry, ca.1920. The branch hangs in from the left, its tiny fruit covered in small hairs. The similarly small leaves are pictured above them closer to the branch.; "Gooseberries are derived mostly from two species: the European gooseberry (Ribes grossularia), native to the Caucasus Mountains and North Africa; and the American gooseberry (R. hirtellum), native to northeastern and north-central United States and adjacent parts of Canada. So-called European cultivars are pure species, but virtually all so-call American cultivars also have European genes. Gooseberries grow best in summer humid, cool regions with great winter chilling. In California they are fairly productive in the coolest parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, the outer Coast Ranges and coastal northern California. They are probably not worth trying in southern California except at high elevations. With proper attention gooseberries can be grown in containers." -- unknown author.
Call number: CHS-5448
Filename: CHS-5448
Subject (file heading): Botany -- Flowers -- Assorted
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-82-186
Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5448.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass plate negative, photorprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Project: USC
Accession number: 5448
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1920
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m17380; USC-1-1-1-14212
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Coverage date: circa 1920
Subject (lcsh): Flowers