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when it comes. Yet they will well repay by the abundance, 

 and excellence, and beauty of their fruit, the little labor their 

 cultivation requires. 



Fig. 213. 



a. Black Naples. 



b. Red Dutch. 



They may be set out at four or five 

 feet apart, and either kept to a single 

 stem, or to two or three. Satisfactory 

 results will be obtained if the bushes are 

 kept clear of grass and weeds, the off- 

 shoots from the collar of the root sup- 

 pressed, the head of the bush kept rath- 

 er open than otherwise by thinning out 

 any excess of bearing shoots, and com- 

 pact in form by shortening the young 

 wood, according to its strength, to from 

 one half to one third of its last year's 

 growth in the winter pruning as direct- 

 ed for gooseberries, p. 346. 

 Currants may be planted in almost any soil or situation, and 



c. White Dutch. 



