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fruit up from the ground. They ripen one or two weeks before 

 blackberries which makes them desirable. In size they are 

 large and in quality excellent. 



PROFITS. 



The growers may reasonably expect a yield of 100 or 150 cases 

 per acre of 24 quarts each, which at ten cents a quart will give 

 from $240 to $360 per acre, less about $20 or $30 for cases. It 

 will cost one and a half cents a quart for picking, besides which 

 the cost of cultivation, after a field is well established, will not 

 exceed the cost of growing a field of potatoes. 



The committee on prize essays on currants and gooseberries, 

 reported that of the four papers handed in the;^ had selected the 

 one prejiared by Mr. Brand, aged seventeen years, and he was 

 entitled to the award. 



CURRA.NTS AND GOOSEBERRIES. 



By Norton F. Brandy Faribault. 



Order or Family : 

 Tribe : Grossulariece. 

 Genus: Rihes. 



( Grossulariew (Gooseberry). 

 In two Sub-genera: I 



( Ribesia (Currant). 



From the above table we see that not only do the gooseberry 

 and currant class together in our gardens and from a horticul- 

 tural point of view, but that they are intimately connected 

 botanically as well, belonging as they do to the same genus and 

 being the sole sub-genera of that genus. 



We loDg for souiething sour in the spring; the system needs it 

 — or acid; just such as the currant affords. No one will be 

 likely to use too many of these, and not one in a thousand will 

 use as many as he should. They make pies, and such pies! 

 When one has had nothing but dried apple pies for ever so long, 

 a good piece of currant pie makes you think that there is much 

 in this world worth living for. 

 Vol. IV— 49. 



