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Ribes nigrum, Linn.; Black Currant. R. rubrum, Linn.; 



Red Currant and R. rubrum, Linn., var. album, Desf.; White 

 Currant. 



Small shrubs of Northern Europe ami Northern Asia, Johnson 

 & Sowerby (Useful PI. Gt. Britain) record Britain as a native 

 country of nigrum and probably also of rubrum. 



Several varieties of the lied and Black are under cultivation. 



Supplies of the fresh fruit from abroad have come chiefly from 

 Holland (50465), France (49290), Germany and Belgium, 

 totalling in 1913, 121,734 centals. 



The following references, as bearing generally on these two 

 Orders, may be of interest : — 



Journal of the Board of Agriculture: — English Orchards," 



June, 1898, pp. 1-10, Sept. 1898, pp. 145-151, Dec., 1898. 

 pp. 319-325. " Fruit Preservation," June, 1901, pp. 01-0:;. 

 " Planting Fruit Trees and Bushes," Nov. 1904, pp. 449-458. 



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Training and Pruning Fruit Trees and Bushes," Dec. 1904, 

 pp. 522-528. " Preparation of Fruit Pulp in France," Jan. 

 1905, pp. 621-624. "Drying or Evaporating Fruit," March, 

 1900, pp. 756-759. " Pruning Fruit Trees," March, 1908, pp. 

 705-711; April, 1908, pp. 22-30. ''Notes on the Time of Blos- 

 soming of Fruit Trees," Dec. 1908, pp. 678-686; April, 1910, 

 pp. 32-38; "Root-Pruning Fruit Trees," Julv, 1909, pp. 290- 

 293. " Small Fruit Growing in Kent," Nov. 1909, pp. 628-635. 

 "Fruit Farming in West Kent," Jan. 1911, pp. 811-815. 

 "Fruit Bottling," March, 1911, pp. 977-981. "Fruit Pre- 

 serving- for Small Market Growers or for Domestic Use," Aug. 



1915, pp. 447-450. " The Making of Fruit Pulp," pp. 450-453. 



Board of Agric. Leaflet, No. 148, 1908, " Planting Fruit Trees 

 and Bushes." No. 162, 1915, " Grafting Fruit Trees." No. 70, 



1916, " The Treatment of Neglected Orchards." Special Leaflet 

 No. 5,' 1914, " Fruit Preserving for Small Market Growers or 

 for Domestic Use." No. 31, 1917, " The Making of Fruit Pulp." 



" The Apples of New York," S. H. Beach, N. 0. Book, & O. 

 M. Taylor, vol. i. pp. 1-409, vol. ii. pp. 1-360 (J. B. Lyon Co., 

 Albany, New York, 1905) ; illustrated with coloured plates. 



" The Plums of New York," U. P. Hedrick, pp. 1-616 (1911). 

 "The Cherries of New York," idem, pp. 1-371 (1915). 



The Peaches of New York," idem, pp. 1-541 (1917); all 





illustrated by coloured plates (J. B. Lyon Co., Albany, New 

 York) . 



"British Apples: Report of the Committee of the National 

 Apple Congress, " A. F. Barron, 5 plates (London, 1884). 



"Pears: Report of the Committee of the National Pear 

 Conference, " idem, in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. ix. 1887, pp. 



1-230. 



" Apple and Pear Conference. 1888" in Journ. Roy. Hort. 



Soc. x. 1888, pp. 1-3T6, with descriptive catalogue of Apples 



exhibited and statistical and other information relating to th 



cultivation of Apples in Great Britain and Ireland. 



M Conference on Fruit Growing " in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 

 . 1906, pp. 1-166, with a Table of the Acreage under Fruit 



