VI. LIST OF FRUITS. 



near the point of the' 



PLATE. 7. 

 limbs, is very poor and 



small. This method of 

 pruning currants (and, as 

 will be seen by and by, 

 that of gooseberries is the 

 same) is amongst the 

 very greatest of improve- 

 ments in gardening, and 

 is a discovery to be as- 

 cribed solely to the market-gardeners in the neighbour- 

 hood of London, like a great -many other things in the art 

 of gardening, in which they far excel all the rest of the 

 world. Mr. MARSHALL in his book on gardening, and 

 the French authors in all their books, describe a method 

 very different indeed, from this, which is, at once, so 

 simple and so efficacious, causing to be produced such 

 immense quantities of fruit and always of the best 

 quality : hanging to one single joint of a currant tree, in 

 the market gardens, you frequently see as much fruit as 

 will fill a plate. One tree pruned in this manner is equal 

 to more than six trees pruned in the manner practised in 

 general- throughout the country. But, these gardeners 

 excel all the world in every thing that they undertake to 

 cultivate : they beat all the gentlemen's gardeners in the 

 kingdom : nothing ever fails that depends upon their 

 ^ skill, and I should be ungrateful, indeed, if I did not 

 acknowledge that I have learned more from them than 

 from all the books that I have read in my life, and from all 

 that I ever saw practised in gentlemen's gardens. There 

 are three sorts of currants, distinguished by their different 



