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medium size, translucent, slightly darker in color than White Grape. 

 Pulp comparatively mild acid. Quality excellent. It begins to 

 ripen a few days earlier than most of the red varieties. 



White Grape. — Bush moderately vigorous, rather slender 

 branches, somewhat spreading, productive. Bimches three to four 

 inches long. (See Plate VIII, Hgure 13.) Berries quite uniformly 

 large, but vary from medium to very large. Ti-anslucent, whitish, 

 attractive in color, mild flavored, good quality. It has larger and 

 better colored fruit than White Dutch, but is inferior to that variety 

 in quality. 



White Versaillaise. — Eeceived in November, 1893, from John 

 Charlton, Rochester, N. Y ., with the statement that it was received 

 from France a few years ago. He characterized it as a stout, vigorous 

 grower, more so than White Grape and other white kinds ; bunches 

 long, resembling Yersai liaise in shape, character of bunch, etc. 



So far as tested here it is, as Mr. Charlton says, vigorous in growth 

 and upright. The base of the cluster-stem has no fruit so that it is 

 easily picked. Bunches three and a half to four inches long. The 

 berries average large, a shade darker than White Grape in color. 

 Pulp not quite so juicy, but about the same in acidity as White 

 Grape. It has not been fruited here long enough to justify a report 

 as to its productiveness. 



EUROPEAIS" BLACK CURRANT. 



jRihes nigrum, L. 

 The black currant commonly cultivated in gardens for its fruit is 

 indigenous to northern Europe and northern Asia. De Candolle * 

 thinks its cultivation began before the Middle Ages. In botanical 

 characters it is somewhat similar to the wild black currant of our 

 woods, Bibes Jloridum, L'Her., but readily distinguished from it by 

 the strong odor of its branches, leaves and fruit, and by the greener 

 flowers, smaller flower clusters and very small bracts. So far as I 

 know the wild black currant just referred to is not cultivated for its 

 fruit. It is quite distinct from the wild black currant of the prairies, 

 the so-called Missouri or Buflfalo currant, which will he referred to 

 later. 



Description of Varieties. 



A description of the varieties of the garden black currant that are 

 growing at this Station is herewith given. 



* OrigiQ of CulUvated Plants, 278. 



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