VARIETIES OF CU BR ANTS 379 



RED AND WHITE CURRANTS 



(Bibes rubrum) 



Attractor. — A variety from France. Plant moderately vigorous, 

 with remarkably deep-lobed, sharply and deeply serrated leaves. 

 Fruit medium to large, yellowish white. Bunches short. 



Bertin Seedling. — Appears in the catalogue of the American 

 Pomological Society for 1869. 



Boston Lady. — Mentioned as a white variety, with fruit unusually 

 large, Ijearing profusely, a quart having been picked from twelve 

 inches of a single stem. — Gar. Month. 1860: 250. 



Bronze. — Mentioned in Hovey's Magazine for 1861, p. 101, as 

 having been under discussion at the meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society. 



Buist Long-bunched. — Originated by Robert Buist of Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. Described as a strong, vigorous grower, very pro- 

 ductive. Fruit large, deep red, similar to Red Dutch in flavor. 

 Bunches long and tapering. Leaves large and very thick. 



Caywood Seedling. — A seedling received at the Geneva (N. Y.) 

 Experiment Station from A. J. Caywood & Son, of Marlboro, N. Y. 

 Described as a moderate grower, with spreading or drooping 

 branches, very productive. Fruit more acid than the White 

 Grape, of good quality, attractive, translucent, tinged with pale 

 greenish yellow. Bunches of medium size, about two and one-half 

 inches long. Berries large. 



Champagne (Pheasant's Eye, Grosellier a Fruit Couleur de 

 Chair). — Of foreign oi-igin. Described as vigorous and productive. 

 Fruit large, acid, not rich, of a delicate reddish pink, like a cross 

 between the red and white, though the wood, foliage, and growth 

 place it at once among the reds. Bunches medium, loose, slightly 

 tapering. Ripens late. 



Champion. — A white variety, described as tall, vigorous, and up- 

 right, with bunches of medium length. Berries a shade lighter 

 than White Dutch, uneven in size, averaging below medium. In- 

 ferior to White Dutch in appearance, flavor, and quality. — Geneva 

 (N. Y.) Exp. Sta. Bull. 95: 427. 



Cherry. — This variety was obtained from Italy by M. Adrienne 

 Seneclause, a distinguished horticulturist of France. He received 

 it among a lot of other currants known there under the name Bibes 

 acerifoUum. He gave it the name inconsequence of the extraordi- 

 nary size of the fruit. It was fruited at the Museum of Natural 

 History in 1843, and from the plants there grown was figured in 

 the "Annales de Flore et de Pomone" for Feb. 1844. (Roe says 



