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them out into God's country. You will boast of 

 your Bubachs and Samples and Senator Dunlaps 

 — twenty to a quart. Your strawberry dishes will 

 be frequently enlarged in size, and so also will your 

 cream pitchers. We do not do things on so small 

 a scale out in the country. My cream pitcher holds 

 a quart. 



Currants and gooseberries are not in the Ros- 

 acese family, but they are so closely associated with 

 them in home use and market that they must find 

 a place in this chapter. There are several species 

 of currants grown by American gardeners. The 

 ribes rubrum includes all the red and white vari- 

 eties, and ribes nigrum the black varieties. The 

 growth of all varieties and the culture is about the 

 same. The currant likes a moist soil, but not wet, 

 and clay in preference to sand. It will, however, 

 grow in almost any soil, with proper tillage. But 

 to do its best the currant must be abundantly fed. 

 I apply my compost either late in the fall or early 

 in the spring. Thoroughly decomposed barnyard 

 manure is excellent for the currant, if applied at the 

 same season as the compost. The black currant 

 is rather more drooping in growth, and needs to be 

 set somewhat wider in the row than the red and 



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