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This system of cultivation has been used at this Station, and has proved 

 very successful. It will be understood that the system referred to above does 

 not apply to the treatment of the black currant. It is practiced only with the 

 white and the red varieties. The fruit of the black currant is produced on the 

 one year old wood, and consequently it must iv - i -r -pruned. Simply thin 



Fig. 525. — Natural Growth op the CVrrant. 



