CHAPTER XXVL 



THE CURRANT. 



For a long period this cooling and healthful fruit has 

 heen much esteemed and largely cultivated in climates 

 ^adapted to its growth. It succeeds admirably in the 

 mountainoqs regions of the South, but near the coast it 

 is not successful. The fruit is produced on a low grow- 

 ing shrub, and being a great improvement on the small 

 £0ur fruit of the original species, it is considered almost 

 indispensable in cool climates. The currant is propa- 



Fig. 90. 



gated very readily from cuttings, from six inches 

 to a foot in length, taken from the last year's growth and 

 planted in good soil, about two-thirds of their length in 

 the ground (see chapter on cuttings). The cuttings can 

 be set every two inches in rows fifteen inches apart. 

 They will be sufficiently rooted the succeeding fall to be 

 planted where they are to remain. It is some protection 

 against the summer's sun to plant them on thejnorth or 



