PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



Red Currant bush, additional young growths should 

 not be encouraged. A few sketches will make the 

 process quite plain. Fig. 19, page 

 57. represents a Red Currant 

 bush pruned and ready for bearing. 

 That bush has averaged 20 Ibs. of 

 fruit for the last seven years. 

 There are nine branches, each five 

 feet in length. Seven as a rule suf- 

 fice, but as there appeared room for 

 two more, they were allowed to ex- 

 tend, branching from the mains on 

 the left of the figure. Nearly all 

 the buds on the stem are blossom 

 buds, but there are a few wood buds 

 amongst them, that push growths in 

 the summer. These are first pruned 

 back to two or three pairs of leaves 

 in June, as shown at xx, in the fruit- 

 ing branch, fig. 20, page 57, one 

 growth being left unpruned to show 

 the difference, for it ought also to 

 be taken off at the cross-mark. In 

 winter these summer - shortened 

 growths are cut back close to the 



Fig. 21. GROWTH G 



OF RED CURRANT, clusters of buds as shown on the 



WITH SPURS AND 1 , i . 



BUDS. enlarged three-year old branch (fig. 



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