MY GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED. 6) 



a few handfuls. But my journal shows that 

 from this modest plantation of currants four 

 bushels and four quarts were sold during the 

 season, bringing nineteen dollars and thirteen 

 cents. In addition we used not a few our- 

 selves, and some were given away. The 

 most of these bushes were raised from cut- 

 tings, the manner of which will be explained 

 farther on. Any one who has enjoyed the 

 cherry-currant with berries two or three times 

 the size of the old common kind, will acknowl- 

 edge that they are a beautiful and delicious fruit ; 

 yet a bush will take up no more room than a 

 full-sized burdock, such as I have seen orna- 

 menting many a back-yard, and occasionally 

 flaunting in front of some shiftless farmer's 

 door ; and it will grow about as easily, as we 

 hope to show in the following pages. 



Among my currants I have another old- 

 fashioned friend, which, though somewhat 



