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to freeze, but cold enough to check 

 their growth, and this checking of 

 their growth is an acknowledged 

 cause of mildew wherever it ap- 

 pears. 



Those who wish to cultivate Chrys- 

 anthemums, but have no house, will 

 do best to procure young, healthy 

 plants in May, giving the treatment 

 above advised after that time, imtil 

 the time for housing, when they may 

 be taken in on cold nights and placed 

 out of doors through the day. As 

 'house plants, they should be kept 

 well watered, syringed as often as 



possible, being careful not to wet the 

 flowers, and kept in the coolest, 

 airiest place to be found. The black 

 aphis, or black fly, is usually found 

 quite troublesome, but can be con- 

 quered b}^ persistent application of 

 Dalmation powder with the bellows. 

 If it is desirable to keep the old 

 roots over the winter, they should be 

 placed where they will be kept quite 

 cool, and, if possible, near a sunny 

 window. Early in the spring they 

 may be divided and planted out in 

 the open ground and receive the same 

 treatment as young plants. 



A REPORT ON THE CRANDALL, THE NEW BLACK 



CURRANT. 



Sir, — I notice in your February issue an 

 inquiry, No, 14, as to the Crandall Currant. 

 I enclose my experience with growing it for 

 two years, E. E. S. 



ASEx\SON'S trial of this new 

 form among the currant family 

 shows that it really has some very 

 desirable quahties. In spite of the 

 severe drought of last summer it 

 made a most vigorous growth, fruit- 

 ing on the one-year old wood. The 

 Crandall is like the common Black 

 Currant in being absolutely free from 

 insect enemies, either here in New 

 York State, or in Ohio, or in its 

 original home of Kansas, but differs 

 from it in not having that peculiar 

 odor, resembling Ciinex Icctulanus, 

 a well-known household insect.; the 

 taste is like a ripe gooseberry, with 

 something of the sub-acid quality of 

 the Red Currant. For pies, jellies 



and jams, it is not inferior to any of 

 the small fruits, which were similarly 

 treated, and unlike Raspberries, es- 

 pecially it has but few seeds. 



As far as the disseminators., Messrs. 

 Frank Ford & Sons, of Ravenna, C, 

 are able to learn, the Crandall is a 

 hybrid from the Red Cherr}' Currant 

 (Ribc's nibniiii), and the Missouri 

 Yellow (Ribc's aureuni), and, with me, 

 its habit and productiveness confirm 

 that idea. The color is a shiny 

 bluish black ; the size ranges from a 

 half inch to three quarters of an inch 

 in diameter, greatly resembling a 

 Concord Grape ; and as a market 

 fruit it seems almost without a rival. 

 E. E. SuMMEY, La Salle, N.Y. 



Note bv Editor. — We have procured an 

 engraving of this Currant, and here give it 

 place ; but wish it to be understood that we 

 do not know of its having as yet been fruited 

 in Canada, and therefore we only recommend 

 it for trial. 



