THE CRANDALL CURRANT 401 



varieties are known are Ribes aureum, R. Americanum 

 (or R.floridum), R. sanguinewn. 



Of these varieties, only the Crandall is generally 

 known, and even this has little commercial or even 

 domestic value. This is 

 Ribes auretim, the species 

 generally known as the buf- 

 falo or Missouri currant. 

 There are a few other 

 named fruit-bearing varie- 

 ties of this species, 

 but they are mostly 

 confined to the dry 

 regions of the West. 

 The species has also 

 been long cultivated 

 as the flowering cur- 

 rant (Fig. 102). It 

 grows wild from Missouri 

 and Arkansas westward. 



The Crandall currant was 

 named for R. W. Cran- 

 dall, of Newton, Kansas, 

 who found it growing wild. 

 It was introduced in the Fig. 102. Flowers of buffalo 

 spring of 1888, by Frank 

 Ford & Son, Ravenna, Ohio.* 

 This type or species of currant undoubtedly has 

 great promise as the parent of a new and valuable 

 race of small fruit. The Crandall, however, is too 

 variable to be reliable. Comparatively few plants pro- 



*S<-e Amer. Qard. x. 300 (1889); Bulls. 15 and 51 Cornell Exp. Sta.; Annals 

 of Horticulture for 1891, 52; Beach, Bull. 95, N. Y. State Exp. Sta. 



