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Owing to the transplanting of a large number of varieties last spring, 

 trustworthy dates of blooming and gathering for the current year are 

 unattainable. For this reason the dates of the report of the previous 

 year are reproduced. 



1. Ribes aureum— Missouri or Yellow Flowering Currant. 



2. Ribes Nigrum— Black or Fetid Currant. 



1, Black Champion. 



2 Black Naples 



3! Lee 



41 Saunders 



5 Wales (Prince of) 



Differs very slightly from other varieties 

 Vigorous, very musky. 

 Closely resembles Black Naples. 

 Origin, Ontario. 

 Origin, Ontario. 



3. Ribes rubrum — Red and White Currants. 



5 

 6 

 7 



fi 

 9 



10 



11 



12 

 13 

 14 



Cherry 



Fay 



Holland (Long 



Bunched) 



Lakewood 



London Red 



Moore's Ruby 



Moore's Select ... 



Red Dutch 



Versaillaise 



Victoria 



White Dutch 



White Gondoin .. 



White Grape 



Wilder 



Large, productive, acid. 

 Cherry, with a longer cluster. 



Vigorous, but unproductive. 

 Yet untested. 



Not fully tested. 

 Origin, Rochester, N. Y. 

 From Massachusetts. 

 The oldest and still the best. 

 Much like Cherry and Fay. 



Valued for market. 

 Richest and sweetest of currants. 

 Not new, but untested here. 

 Best white market currant. 

 Not yet fruited here. 



Crandall, Aureum, varies so widely in the habit of growth and the pro- 

 ductiveness of the plants, as well as in the size of the fruit, as to warrant 

 the suspicion that it is the product not of one, but of a batch of seedlings. 

 The fruit can only be considered desirable when cooked. It makes a rich, 

 sprightly sauce, although the extreme thickness and toughness of the 

 skin, even then, is a serious if not even a fatal objection. Further, if not 

 repeated, reproduction from seed seems requisite to educe from it any- 

 thing valuable. 



Of the black varieties, the Champion, Naples and Lee, while they may 

 vary somewhat in vigor or habit of plant, show little difference in pro- 

 ductiveness so far as tested here, nor yet in the size or quality of their 

 fruit. 



Saunders and Wales have not yet yielded characteristic results here. A 

 year or two yet is needed to properly develop their qualities. 



White Dutch, when well grown, has, so far, no equal in richness and 

 high quality for the table and no superior in beauty among the white 

 varieties, although White Grape may slightly exceed it in size, and possi- 

 bly in productiveness. 



