

SECTION II. 



THE CURRANT. 



The Currant will grow in any soil that will 

 produce corn or potatoes. It is more easily 

 cultivated than any other fruit. The best 

 mode of propagating the currant, is by plant- 

 ing out cuttings of it, in the fall, or quite ear- 

 ly in the spring. (See Chap. 2d, of Part 1.) 

 It is well to procure the cuttings in the 

 fall and keep them like scions until spring. 



Tree and Bush Currant. By taking out 

 all the eyes of a cutting except the three or 

 four upper ones, currants can easily be kept in 

 the form of little trees. By leaving all the buds 

 on the cutting, or by propagating by dividing 

 the roots, the plants will assume quite a bushy 

 habit. Downing prefers the tree mode of 

 culture; but we very much prefer the bush 

 mode. We have never seen tree-formed cur- 

 rants so healthy and vigorous as those grow- 



