56 Fruit Culture. 



It is not advisable to set out bushes in the autumn, in 

 Colorado. Our own experience leads us to give this advice. 

 In the spring of 1881 we set out two hundred bushes, whose 

 growth were not retarded in the least, that bore well during 

 the season of 1882. In the fall of the first-named year we 

 set out one thousand plants, of four varieties. The winter 

 was a fairly mild one ; there was not much wind, and yet 

 not fifty of the bushes gave out leaves in the spring of 1882. 

 About 100 were utterly killed. The balance sent up fresh 

 shoots from the roots ; but our currant plantation has been 

 set back one and perhaps two years, all because the bushes 

 were planted in the fall. Hence we say, better heel in and 

 cover with dirt if you have bushes to set in the fall, than 

 subject them to our winter climate before any growth has 

 been made. And this advice, we are inclined to think, will 

 be equally good if applied to blackberries, raspberries, and 

 strawberries. 



The varieties of currants, being so few, are well known 

 and hardly need be repeated here. Still, we give the list,, 

 as to earliness. 



Red. Red Dutch, Cherry or Versailles, Victoria. 



White Grape, Goudoin, Danals. 



Black Black Naples. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



Fay's Prolific Red, Leiz's Large Black, Golden Cham- 

 pion. 



Though, as before stated, we have no currant worm to- 

 trouble us, it might be as well to be prepared for such an 

 enemy by having at hand a statement of the methods used 

 elsewhere where the worm is troublesome. 



Soapsuds is recommended ; and this is simple enough 

 and easy to be procured. A Mr. Hurlburt, of Portland, 

 Mich., says he knows by two years' successful experience 

 that a dash of soapsuds is death to currant worms. " Try 

 it," he writes to the Fruit Recorder, "in just such strength 

 as will cure them in a second of time." He uses it very 



