15 PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



plant standard Currants between them and allow 

 only lOlbs. of fruit for each, and it is obvious that 

 the value from the same plot of land is increased 

 fifty per cent., because the standards rising above 

 the dwarfs as shown in fig. 6, page 27, do not 

 impair their productiveness. Now have a marginal 

 row of Strawberries planted a foot from the path, 

 and the same distance asunder in the line, and 

 ornament will be combined with utility. 



The Red Dutch is one of the best red Currants 

 for standards, and is good also for bushes. If a 

 few extra large fruits are desired for exhibiting at 

 cottagers' shows, a tree of the Victoria will pro- 

 duce them, but for general purposes this is not so 

 useful as the other. The only White Currant that 

 need be grown is the White Dutch, and one or two 

 trees will suffice for small gardens. 



Black Currants. This most useful fruit is 

 quite distinct from the foregoing, and requires en- 

 tirely different treatment. It will grow in stronger 

 and moister soil than, perhaps, any other fruit, and 

 if one position in a garden is cooler and damper 

 than the rest, it may be planted with Black Cur- 

 rants : the bushes also grow and bear well in good 

 soil under trees, where the sunshine can pass down 

 between them and filter through the branches. 

 Black Currants are in great demand for cooking 



