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THE SUBURBANITE'S HANDBOOK 



STANDARD CURRANT 



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Currant in Tree Form 

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of delicious fruit if allowed to get fully ripe red, white, green and 

 yellow, smooth and hairy, sweet and acid. For cooking they are 

 generally picked green, but for home cooking it is better to let them 

 get fairly ripe, as they will thus develop a much finer flavor and 

 require much less sugar. With regard to raspberries and black- 

 berries they are so well known as not to require any description here. 

 They bear on new shoots the second year after starting. The 

 canes of the current bear the summer following, and the old canes 

 should be cut away in the fall or winter as they die after fruiting, 

 and only three or four of the strongest new canes allowed to grow. 

 They may be kept in bounds by stopping the new shoots in June. 



As to grapes, I will not enter into detail for the reason that so 

 much depends on local conditions that the suburbanite had better 

 consult a local nursery man or fruit grower concerning them. The 

 strawberry has the habit of sending their roots straight down, and 

 do not spread their feeding roots far on either side of the row. 

 This should be remembered when spreading fertilizers. While the 

 commercial grower of strawberries requires to cut down the cultural 

 expenses to the lowest notch, the suburbanite, having only a limited 



