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of a fine yellowish- white color, with a veined, translucent 

 skin. 



The White Grape is an advance in size upon the last- 

 named, and of marvellous productiveness and beauty. It is 

 not as vigorous as the White Dutch, and is more spreading 

 in its mode of growth, requiring careful pruning to make a 

 shapely bush. The fruit, also, is not spread so evenly over 

 the wood, but is produced more in bunches. In flavor, it 

 is one of the very best. 



Dana's Transparent, and other white varieties, do not vary 

 materially from either the White Grape or Dutch. 



The great market currant is the Cherry. In the " Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist" for September, 1878, I find the follow- 

 ing:— 



'* The history of this handsome currant is not without inter- 

 est. Monsieur Adrienne Seneclause, a distinguished horticul- 

 turist in France, received it from Italy among a lot of other 

 currants. He noticed the extraordinary size of the fruit, and 

 gave it, in consequence, the name it yet bears. In the year 

 1843 it was fruited in the nursery of the Museum of Natural 

 History, and figured from these samples in the ' Annales de Flore 

 et de Pomone ' for February, 1848. Dr. William W. Valk, of 

 Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., introduced it to the notice of 

 American fruit growers in 1846, having imported some of the 

 plants in the spring of that year." 



This variety is now very widely disseminated, and its cul- 

 ture is apparently becoming increasingly profitable every 

 year. Two essentials are requisite to success with it, — high 

 manuring and skilful pruning. It has the tendency to pro- 

 duce long branches, on which there are but few buds. Rig- 

 orous cutting back, so as to cause branching joints and fruit 

 spurs, should be practised annually. The foliage is strong 

 and coarse, and the fruit much more acid than the Dutch 



