DELIGHTFUL BERRIES 333 



This is the best of the thousands of hybrids 

 grown, though I have produced a few really 

 good currants of unique form and flavor, as well 

 as some flowering currants of unusual size and 

 beauty. 



All in all, my work with the currants, while 

 substantiating and emphasizing the principles of 

 plant development that work with other plants 

 had made familiar, and while showing many 

 features of interest, has not resulted in any very 

 striking developments; largely, perhaps, because 

 attention was diverted from this line of work 

 to other experiments of greater immediate 

 promise; and because the experiments were too 

 radical, taking in so many species that so many 

 unique characters appeared that I had not time 

 to segregate them. If I had worked with a 

 single species, more immediate commercial re- 

 sults would have been attained. Much of the 

 work with currants was done for its aesthetic and 

 scientific interest rather than for immediate 

 commercial prospects. 



THE GOOSEBERRY 



The currant has a very close relative which 

 vies with it in popularity, particularly in 

 England the familiar gooseberry. This plant, 

 indeed, is in reality a currant that has developed 



