Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



anthers. The parts of the flower are in fours instead 

 of in fives, as in the other Flowering Currants. 

 Fruit is very rarely borne in this country. The leaves 

 are like those of the gooseberry, hence a popular name 

 the Scarlet-Flowered Gooseberry. The plant is not 

 as often found as it might be, for it makes a most 

 excellent and interesting wall shrub and very early 

 comes into leaf. It was discovered by Archibald 

 Menzies at the same time as the ordinary Flowering 

 Currant, but was not known in England until Dr. 

 Collie brought it from Monterey in 1828. 



All these Ribes are armed with spines. 



A new Ribes, R. laiirifoliiim, was introduced some 

 ten years ago (1908) by Mr. Wilson from North 

 China, where, however, it is rarely found wild. Its 

 flowers lack any reds and golds and are merely a pale 

 greenish colour, but at Aldenham a shrub that has 

 been in the open for the past five or six years is very 

 flourishing and most attractive in the earliest spring 

 days when its long yellow-green clusters droop among 

 the young, fresh foliage. This shrub is further 

 characterised by being unisexual, the male flowers 

 being borne on one shrub and the female on 

 another. 



Soil and Cultivation. The Flowering Currants 

 are easy to cultivate in ordinary garden soil. They 



are propagated by cuttings. 



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