294 "^^^ SMALL FRUITS OF NEW YORK 



To offset this fault they hang on the bushes well and are easily picked. The berries are 

 very mild in flavor and do not make a good jelly, for which purpose currants are so commonly 

 used. In many localities the bunches run small. This variety originated as a cross 

 between Cherry and White Grape by Jacob Moore, Attica, New York, in 1885, and first 

 fruited about 1889. The American Pomological Society added Red Cross to its fruit 

 catalog list in 1899. 



Plants large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense, productive, healthy; young shoots 

 numerous; leaf -buds large, medium long, pointed, rather plump, pubescent, free; leaves 

 of medium size, deeply cordate at the base, with shallow, obtuse lobes, medium in thick- 

 ness and color, dull, rugose, glabrous, with slightly hairy, crenate margins; petiole medium 

 in length and thickness, green, with slight tinge of red, pubescent. Flowers midseason, in 

 long, drooping racemes variable in compactness; calyx-tube pale green, saucer-shaped, 

 glabrous; caljTC-lobes obtuse, widely separated, pale green; ring fleshy, well defined; ovary 

 glabrous. Fruit midseason, hangs on the bushes well, easy to pick; clusters short to above 

 medium, the tips poorly filled, loose; cluster-stems long, slender to medium; berry-stems 

 long; berries medium to large, round, glossy, bright light red; skin smooth, thin, tender, 

 cracks under imfavorable conditions, translucent; flesh juicy, sprightly becoming mildly 

 flavored when fully ripe; quality good. 



Red Dutch, i. Langley Pomona 124. 1729. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 203. 1845. 

 3. Card. Chron. N. S. 5:527. 1876. 4. Ohio Sta. Bui. 371:345, 373, fig. 1923. 



CroseilUer a Gros Fruit Rouge. 5. Duhamel Trait. Arh. Fr. 1:266. 1768. 



Fertile de Palnau. 6. Horticidturist 7:42$. 1852. 



Holldndisclte Rote. 7. Lucas-Oberdieck III. Handb. Obst. 7:268. 1875. 



This old sort is now mainly of historical importance only, although it is to be found in 

 almost countless numbers in the gardens of the country. It is little grown in New York or 

 other parts of the East in commercial plantations, but is still somewhat largely grown in 

 the Middle West. The plants are nearly faultless, but the currants are small and ripen 

 ununiformly, to offset which they are of the very best quality. While there are many 

 synonyms, the true Red Dutch is easily identified from the description which follows. 

 This is one of the oldest if not the oldest cultivated currant known. The name has appeared 

 in print for more than two centuries, but no one can be quite certain that the Red Dutch 

 grown today is the Red Dutch of two centuries ago. It is somewhat difficult, also, to con- 

 nect Hollandische Rote of continental Europe with the Red Dutch now grown in England 

 and America. The currant, long grown in America under the name Fertile de Palnau, is 

 probably Red Dutch. The two have proved identical at this Station as well as in many 

 other localities here and abroad. Red Dutch was added to the American Pomological 

 Society's list of recommended fruits in 1852. 



Plants large, vigorous, upright, dense, productive to very productive, healthy; young 

 shoots very numerous, comparatively slender; leaf-buds sinall, pointed, lean, nearly gla- 

 brous, appressed; leaves medium in size, length, and thickness, subcordate to almost trun- 

 cate at the base, with short-pointed lobes, dull, dark green, glabrous, rugose, with crenate 

 margins; petiole medium in length and thickness, greenish, pubescent. Flowers early, 

 in fairly long, moderately loose, drooping, many-flowered racemes; calyx-tube greenish, 



