Minutes. 9 



Mr. Pilgrim — He has dusted them over and over with 

 hellebore. He has a watchful eye himself and has good help. 

 He intends to set out there, ten acres of these currants— Long 

 Hollands exclusively. One person said to me that the rea- 

 son Stickney succeeded so well vvith this variety was that the 

 currants, bushes and everything were too mean for the bugs 

 to hurt. They are shipped to a Chicago firm every [year 

 and are shipped even further than there. They never 

 bruise nor stain the boxes they are put in. They sell well. 

 They are a good fruit in the market. 



Mr. Plumb — I want to say a word against the Long 

 Bunch Hollands. Their name is a misnomer, it has not a 

 long bunch. 



Mr. Pilgrim — I would like to correct the gentleman. 

 Does the gentleman know what the soil is? We have 

 bunches 5 and 7 inches long. 



Mr. Plumb — Our bunches are only about three inches 

 long. I would sa}^ a word in defense of the Holland 

 currant. My wife says they make the best jelly of 

 any currant we have ever grown, and currant jelly 

 is the one thing above all others that currants are wanted 

 for at our place. For this currant culture Mr. Pilgrim and 

 Mr. Stickney, at Milwaukee county, have an entirely diff- 

 erent soil and climatic conditions than we have in ihe 

 center of the state. With us we have two or three that will 

 hold their foliage until the fruit ripens, the White Crab, 

 Perry, Red Dutch, and two others. The others all lose 

 their foliage, and we do not know of any way to prevent it, 

 whereas the Holland currant and the Versailles hold their 

 foliage. The Fay's Prolific is too delicate. I was examin- 

 ing ours yesterday. They had fruit last year and the year 

 before, and have a little this year, but under our system of 

 culture Fay's Prolific cannot stand it. It is fully as large 

 as the Perry. 



Mr. Tuttle— I have seen a single specimen of the Fay's 

 Prolific. It was the only specimen I have ever seen. Right 

 beside it are growing the Red Dutch, and the Fay is doing 

 better. 



Mr. Plumb — Now, about this currant culture, it is not 



