THE HOME FRUIT GARDEN 



are pegged into the soil (or preferably each into a small 

 flower-pot filled with soil), and if kept moist will soon 

 form roots. In five or six weeks they may be taken up 

 and used to form a fresh plantation or potted, each in 

 a 6-inch flower-pot, to give an early crop of fruit in the 

 greenhouse. 



Red and White Currants. Perhaps the most profitable 

 way of growing these useful fruits is as gridiron-shaped or 

 cordon trees, trained to a series of wire trellises arranged 

 parallel to each other and about 3 feet apart in the open 

 garden. They thrive well against a north wall, and by 

 growing them in this position a succession of fruit is 

 secured. The pruning is quite simple, for both red and 

 white Currants bear their fruits on spurs or short, stubby 

 outgrowths. The side shoots are summer pruned in 

 July in the way already described, and each is cut back 

 to within two buds of its base in winter. 



The Black Currant. This popular fruit has received 

 rather a serious set-back during the past few years owing 

 to the prevalence of the mite which attacks the buds and 

 causes them to become swollen and useless : hence the 

 common name given to this malady of Big Bud. There 

 seems to be no real cure beyond picking off and burning 

 all the big buds and cutting down and burning the badly 

 attacked bushes. If fresh bushes are obtained they 

 should be planted in a different part of the garden. The 

 variety Boskoop Giant is said to be less liable to an 

 attack of Big Bud than the other sorts. The fruits of 



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