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the bundles are buried at once in a warm, well-drained soil, upside down 

 and deep enough so that they are covered two or three inches. This 

 places the base, which is now uppermost, in the most favorable condition 

 for the development of the callus, which at once starts; but the top is 

 too deep in the soil for favorable conditions of growth and does not start. 

 The cuttings may be left where buried until spring, provided they are 

 protected with more dirt or mulch; or, at the approach of cold weather, 

 they may be removed to a cool cellar and kept buried in moist sand over 

 winter. 



It is not always necessary to treat the cuttings as mentioned above 

 in order to start the callus. Often the cuttings are made in the fall and 

 placed in moist sand in a cool cellar without being buried previously in 

 the soil; thus treated, the callus is wholly or partially formed by spring. 

 Sometimes the cuttings are not made until spring, in which case they are 

 planted immediately in the nursery row. Good results are obtained 

 even by the latter method, which is, of course, much less trouble. Whether 

 previously callused or not, the cuttings should be planted in the nursery 

 row early in the spring because the currant starts to grow quickly. 



When grown from seeds, the currant reproduces itself more nearly 

 true to variety than do most fruits. Because of this fact, and since it 

 does not take a plant long to come into bearing, the currant should be 

 more interesting to the plant breeder than it is. Very little systematic 

 work has been done along this line. The grower who is interested in 

 the development of new varieties will find the currant a promising fruit. 



VARIETIES 



The preferred varieties are shown in the table below. In the summer 

 of 1 910, twenty-one patches were visited in western New York. The 

 figures show on how many farms out of the twenty-one these varieties 

 are grown. The plantings indicate fairly accurately the commercial 

 value of the varieties. 



Variety 



Fay 



Wilder .... 

 Cherry .... 

 Versai liaise . 

 Victoria. . . , 

 Red Cross. 

 Pomona. . . 



Number 

 of farms 



15 

 7 

 7 

 2 

 2 

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