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years old they will be fit for sale or home planting, while many 

 one year plants are sold, and if vigorous are just as good, if not 

 better. Where a market can be found, the raising of young plants 

 is a profitable business. 



While the best results are secured from early fall cuttings, 

 they can be made any time before winter and placed in the ground 

 as directed above. I have found it advantageous to mound the 

 earth over them, covering them completely, and then uncovering 

 early in the spring. This prevents the frost from throwing 

 them out. If it is not convenient to set out the cuttings in the 

 fall, they can be tied in bundles and buried in the open ground 

 just beneath the action of frost. Put them out in rows as early 

 as possible in the spring. Cuttings can be made any time du- 

 ring the winter and buried in a cool cellar, keeping them barely 

 moist enough to prevent their drying out. Or they may be taken 

 from the bushes early in spring, and if set out in moist land, will 

 generally live, but do not make as good a growth as those planted 

 early in the fall. 



The old fiishioned way of layering or bending down branches 

 in spring, and throwing earth upon them here and there never 

 fails, but the plants are not as nice as those produced by 

 cuttings. 



Enemies. 



The currant has two enemies which in some seasons and local- 

 ities, if not interfered with, are very destructive. The more 

 formidable one is known as the currant worm. It is about an 

 inch long, bright yellow, and dotted with small black spots 

 These worms are very voracious and will strip the bushes of foli- 

 age before one is aware of their presence, if not on the watch for 

 them. The remedy is a thorough dusting of white hellebore 

 upon the leaves when they are wet with dew ; or better still, put 

 two ounces of white hellebore into a pail, and pour upon the powder 

 a quart of boihng water. After it has stood a few moments fill 

 up the pail with cold water, and apply it to the bushes with a 



