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Tie CURRANT TREE. 



TH E Currant Tree (Ribes) is of 

 the fhrub and berry-bearing kind, 

 and the mod valuable of our fruit-bear- 

 ing fhrubs, for the ufefulnefs of its fruit, 

 which proves cooling and refrefhing to 

 eat in the heat of Summer, and excel- 

 lent for various culinary purpofes ; and 

 by the rules of botany, comprehends the 

 Goofeberry as a fpecies of the fame 

 family (See Goofeberry,) and belongs to 

 the Clafs and order Pentandria Mcnogy- 

 ma, flowers having five flamina and 

 one ftyle. 



There are two fpecies, and are de- 

 fcribed by the Botanifts, as below, 



Ribu 



