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SOME SPECIFIC ADVICE 



bushes get too tall, and the currant borer is en- 

 couraged. In Fig. 234, the old branching cane 



a should be removed. At 

 its left, two vigorous canes 

 one two seasons old and 

 the other one season old 

 are ready to take its place. 

 When bushes make very 

 strong and tall growths, 

 the canes may be headed- 

 back. For spurs and 

 buds, see Figs. 43, 44 



The following advice is 

 by Beach:* 



"la large plantations it has 

 been found most satisfactory 

 to permit currants to grow in 

 bush form rather than in the 

 tree form, as the old canes 

 may then be removed when they 

 become unproductive, as they 

 do after a few years, and their 

 places may be taken by new 

 canes that have been permitted 

 to grow for this purpose. Then 

 too, if the trunk of a currant 

 in tree form is broken off or 

 injured in any way, a new 

 plant must be set in its place, 



but when several canes are permitted to grow, as is the 

 case when the plants are grown in bush form, the acci- 



232. Dewberries on 

 wire screen. 



*Bull. 95, N. Y. State Exp. Sta. 



