FouK New Types of Fkuits. 



61 



Although I find no fruit with commercial value in our wineberry 

 plants, I am nevertheless ready to believe that the species may eventu- 

 ally give us fruit of considerale value; but for the present I should 

 class it among the ornamentals rather than among the fruits. 



CeANDALL CuEKANT. RiBES AUEEUM.* 



The Crandall currant was named for R. W. Crandall, of Newton, 

 Kansas, who found it growing wild. It was introduced in the spring 



Good and poor types of the Crandall Currant. 



of 1888, by Frank Ford & Son, Ravenna, Ohio. We bought 50 

 plants of Mr. Ford in 1888, and set them in a continuous row upon 

 high gravelly soil. I have given close attention to the plant since that 

 time and have made two or three reports upon it.f 



This type or species of currant undoubtedly has great promise as the 

 parent of a new and valuable race of small fruit. The Crandall, how- 

 ever, is too variable to be reliable, I early noticed that comparatively 

 few of our plants produce abundantly of large fruits, while many of 

 them bear fruits little larger than occasional plants of the common flow- 

 ering currant, to which species the Crandall belongs. When the crop 



* Ribes aureuvi, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 164 (1814). R, fragrans, Loddiges, 

 Bot. Cat. t. 1533. 



t See Amer. Gard. x. 309 (1889). Bull. xv. ComeU Exp. Sta. 207 (1889). 

 AnnalB of Horticulture for 1891, 52. 



