IPO SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



Fniit, continued 



Susceptibility to Skin 



Insects Thick, medium, thin 



Diseases Opaque, translucent 



Clusters Flesh 



Lonp, medium, short Juicy, medium, rather dry 



Comjtact, loose Colorless, pinkish 



Well filled or not Firm, meltinp, seedy 



Lax or held out stiffly Sweet, subacid, sour 



Cluster-Stems Sprightly, aromatic 



Lonfjf, medium, short Quality 



Thick, medium, slender Best, very pjood, good 



Berries Fair, poor, very poor 



Numerous, medium, few Use 



Lartje, medium, small Dessert, kitchen 



Uniform, variable Market, home 



Black, red, whitish, dull, glossy Desirability 



Remarks 



Red Currants 



Cultivated red currants come from at least three wild species. 

 These are: Rihes ruhi'um, R. sativum, and R. petrceum. White 

 currants are albinos of the red species; R. sativum X R- ruhrum 

 furnishes most of the wliitc varieties. 



277. Ribes sativum described. — This is the common red or 

 garden currant ; at least most of the red currants belong here. 



1. Biles sativum, Syme. (Plate XXII) Upright shrubs attaining a 

 height of 6 feet; young growth pubescent and glandular. Leaves thin, 

 cordate or subcordate, 3-5 lobed, with short-ovate serrate lobes, yellowish- 

 green^ more or less folded upward, nearly hairless, 3 inches across. Flowers 

 in long racemes, markedly drooping; rachis glabrous; pedicels filiform, 

 glandless; calyx-tube yellow-green, saucer-shaped; sepals oval; petals nar- 

 rowly cuneate; a high, narrow, fleshy ring between the stamens and the 

 cleft style. Fruit round, red or white. 



The species has been divided into several botanical varieties, 

 but pomologists are interested only in the type species and var. 

 macrocarpum, Bailey. This variety differs from the type in its 

 irregular growth, due to the fact that the lateral branches often 

 have blind terminal buds; larger leaves, more deeply cordate, 

 with a very large middle lobe ; racemes usually without leaves 

 at the base ; and larger fruits. To this botanical variety belong 

 the large-leaved and large-fruited sorts of which Cherry is 



