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he gives for each the botany, origin, history, and a full description. Thayer's 

 studies also include the botany of the currant, both structural and syste- 

 matic. All in all, it is the most notable pomological monograph yet 

 published on the currant. 



This brings us to the present work. In The Small Fruits of New 

 York, 185 currants are described; of which 109 kinds have originated on 

 this side of the Atlantic. The confusion in names and varieties is so great 

 and of so long standing that duplication is unavoidable, and so many of 

 the varieties described no longer exist that probably not a quarter of 

 those described can now be obtained in American and European nurseries. 

 Not more than eighteen or twenty varieties are cultivated in America, 

 and less than half of these are of commercial importance. The acreage 

 and yield of currants in America are shown by the figures in Table 3 taken 

 from the last census. 



Table 3. Acreage, Yield and Value of Currants in' the United States in 1919, by Divisions 



AND States 



Division and State 



Yield 



(in quarts) 



Value 



UNITED STATES 



Geographic Divisions: 



New England 



Middle Atlantic . . . . 

 East North Central. 

 West North Central 



South Atlantic 



East South Central . 

 West South Central. 



Mountain 



Pacific 



New England: 



Maine 



New Hampsliire. . . . 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



Middle Atlantic: 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



East North Central: 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Michigan 



Wisconsin 



7.379 



44 

 142 



30 



236 



9 



70 



2,671 

 135 

 334 



351 

 56 

 274 

 629 

 361 



.614,817 



20,429 

 18,140 



24.437 



266 , 908 

 13.982 

 92.833 



3.321.583 

 139.631 



296 , 890 



431.152 

 56,742 

 103.471 

 636,481 

 289,145 



$1 ,421 ,908 



$4. 085 

 3,628 

 4,886 



53.382 

 2,796 



17.638 



597.887 

 26,528 

 62,346 



86,231 



13.049 



18,626 



127,295 



52,046 



