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was at its height last year (July 26, 1892) I made a record of the size 

 of fruit upon each plant, classifying it into three categories — poor, 

 fairly good and good. The poor fruit was such as appeared to belittle 

 larger than the fruit of the flowering currant, or such as is shown — 

 five-eighths natural size — in the lower spray in the engraving, and it 

 ran from five-eighths to three-fourths inch in diameter. The fairly 

 good fruits were those of intermediate size. In order to show that soil 

 did not cause these differences, I transfer the consecutive record of the 

 plants beginning ^vith the end of the row: 



Plants. 



Poor 6 



Good 1 



Poor 7 



Fairly good 2 



Good 2 



Poor 2 



Good 1 



Poor 2 



Good 3 



Poor 1 



Fairly good 6 



Poor 4 



Fairly good 2 



Poor 2 



Good 1 



Poor 1 



Good 2 



Fairly good 1 



Poor 2 



Good 2 



50 



Twenty-seven poor; eleven fairly good; twelve good. 



Onl}^ a dozen plants, or less than a fourth of the whole number, could 

 be called profitable. There is every reason to expect that if cuttings 

 were taken from these plants alone, the Crandall currant would soon 

 rise in popular estimation. At its best, the Crandall has decided merits. 

 The fruits are large and handsome, firm, of good culinary quality, and 

 the plant is thrifty, hardy and ])roductive. The fruits are borne in very 

 short and open clusters, to be sure, but they are not picked by the 

 cluster like the red and white currants, but singly like the gooseberries. 



