European Black Currants 



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productive. Fruit suitable for preserving, very large, hanging for a 

 long time on the bushes. 



Brown-Fruited (Green-Fruited, Russian Green). An English 

 variety having greenish 

 brown fruit when ripe. 

 Berries dry, hard, rank 

 flavored and worthless. 



Champion. D e s - 

 cribed as of dwarf, up- 

 right habit, fairly pro- 

 ductive. Fruit of large 

 size, borne in short 

 clusters, mild flavored. 



Common Black (Black 

 English). Described 

 as vigorous and pro- 

 ductive, of spreading 

 habit. Fruit medium 

 to large, the clusters 

 ripening evenly. Pulp 

 rather acid and strong 

 flavored. 



Dwarf Black. Men- 

 tioned in the Horticul- 

 turist for 1854, p. 162, 

 as of more dwarf habit 

 than the other blacks. 



Lee (Lee's Prolific). 

 Bush dwarfish, mod- 

 erately vigorous, pro- 

 ductive. Fruit bright, 

 but not much better 

 than Black Naples. 



Prince of Wales. Origin Ontario. Bush vigorous and productive, 

 giving the highest yield of all black currants at Geneva, N. Y. Fruit 

 variable in size, milder in flavor than the Common Black, nearly 

 sweet when fully ripe. 



Fig. 43. Ribes americanum 



