BUSH FRUITS IOI 



can be successfully applied to them. Such other fruits 

 as Loganberries, strawberry-raspberries, June berries, 

 etc., may be introduced "at the owner's risk." Any 

 of them will submit to a certain amount of correction 

 with the pruning knife, and may add to the variety 

 of fruits grown in the amateur's garden. Of course, 

 it is distinctly understood that these special methods 

 of treatment are not commercially recommended for 

 any of the bush fruits in America. 



Probably the most interesting and practical way 

 for handling gooseberries and currants in dwarf fruit 

 gardens is the form known as standards. This form 

 consists of a small round fruiting top of almost any 

 desired variety grafted high upon a straight clean 

 trunk or stem. This stem may have any convenient 

 height from two to ten feet, the most common and 

 practical height being about four feet. The stock 

 used is the flowering currant, Ribes aurenm, which 

 forms a sufficiently strong and upright growth for 

 this purpose. Nevertheless it is almost always neces- 

 sary to support these standards with a convenient stake 

 apiece. For the present these standard gooseberries 

 and currants can be obtained only of the European 

 nurserymen. At least the writer knows of no one 

 who propagates them in America. There are several 

 importers, however, who make a business of supply- 

 ing European stock and who are always glad to im- 

 port these on order. 



The finer varieties are especially chosen for grow- 

 ing as standards. This applies particularly to goose- 

 berries, which are more widely grown and which are 

 more highly prized in Europe than in this country. 



