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hybrid, accidentally produced by (^UWrt; TirM T^s * 

 been brought to a high degree of cultivation by the 

 Dutch, (who do not however claim it as a native of 

 Holland,) are the varieties which our gardens at this 

 time present. They are all justly considered to be 

 among our most desirable and wholesome fruits. 

 Lindley describes six sorts, and the Fruit Catalogue 

 of the London Horticultural Society enumerates 

 fourteen. The following, under our own cultivation, 

 we consider among the best : 



Large white Dutch, amber colored fruit and large bunches. 



" red " dark red fruit and long bunches. 

 English black, . dark purple fruit, full bunches. 

 Champagne, . . a pale red fruited sort, rather acid. 



The same instructions for the culture of the goose- 

 berry will apply in the main to this fruit, with the 

 exception that they do not require the like airy situa- 

 tion, as they are not liable to mildew. Both fruits 

 do better when set in open inclosures than against 

 fences or walls. High manuring is as essential for 

 the production of large berries in the currant as in 

 the gooseberry. Autumnal planting is preferable to 

 the spring. They should be set at about five feet 

 distance each way, and no branches suffered to grow 

 within five or six inches from the ground, all the 

 laterals below this being rubbed off, and the bushes 

 grown in the form of a small tree. The insects 

 which infest the gooseberry are the same with this 

 fruit, and the same method used for their extermi- 

 nation. Currants and gooseberries, when planted 

 by the sides of walks and alleys, are very cumber- 



