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NEW ENGLAND FAE^IER. 



May 



DANA'S TKANSPAKEIfT 'WHITE CURRANT. 



Mr. Fuller, in his Small Fruit Culturist 

 says that the currant was probably a native of 

 Northern Europe, as it is not mentioned by 

 any of the Greek or Roman writers, who 

 were generally particular to name every fruit 

 known in their day. The English name of 

 currant, or corrans, as they were formerly 

 called, is supposed to have originated in their 

 resemblance to a small grape largely imported 

 from Corinth. Though they have been grown 

 in this country from its first settlement, it is 

 not until recently that they have been culti- 



vated to any considerable extent for market, 

 as the price has not been remunerative, but 

 the growth of the cities and manufacturing 

 villages of New England has of late been so 

 rapid, and so great improvements have been 

 made in the modes of preserving and working 

 them into jellies, «fec., that the demand at 

 present is ahead of the supply, and prices in 

 many places justify their more extended culti- 

 vation. 



In most of the old gardens of New England 

 the currant will be found in some neglected 



