VARIETIES OF CURRANTS. 155 



currants are more numerous. Bushes producing poor, 

 small, sour currants should be rooted up, and their 

 place supplied with better kinds. 



Eed Dutch, Large Eed, Large Red Dutch, or Red 

 Grape, is superior in all points to the old Common Red. 

 The bunches are long, and the currants large, deep 

 rich red, and not acid, but sweet and rich in flavour. 



Knight's Large Red is larger, and Knight's Sweet Red 

 is sweeter; the fruit is large, but the bunches not so 

 long, and the red paler. Knight's Early Red has no 

 merit except that of being early. 



The Cherry, or Cerise, is early, and the largest red 

 currant we have, but it is very acid. The bunches are 

 short, and the fruit very large and deep in colour. 



La Fertile and La Hative are of foreign origin, and 

 are both good sorts. La Fertile bears out its name in 

 productiveness, and La Hative is early as well as good. 



Raby Castle, Victoria, May's Victoria, Goliath, or 

 Houghton Castle, is more acid than Red Dutch, but 

 well worth growing, from its superior size, and because 

 it is better than any other kind in hanging long on the 

 tree. The branches are long, and the fruit large, and 

 very bright in colour larger and brighter than the 

 Red Dutch. It ripens late and is a most abundant 

 bearer. 



The Champagne, Pheasant's Eye, or Couleur de 

 Chair, is curious. The fruit is pale pink, or flesh- 

 coloured, with red veins. The currants and the bunches 

 are of medium size, and it is more acid than the Red 

 Dutch. 



Wilniot's Long Bunched Red is a decided improve- 

 ment on Red Dutch as regards size, and it ripens rather 

 later than it. The fruit is large and deep-coloured, 

 and the bunches very long ; said sometimes to measure 

 over six inches in length. 



Other nice red currants are Napoleon, Provence Red, 

 Bunney's Large Red, said to be a first-rate kind, Lander's 

 Large Red, and Gloire des Sablons. 



Aphides and caterpillars are the currant bushes' 

 worst enemies. Syringing with tobacco-water is best 



