THE CRAXDALL CURRANT 



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varieties are known are /.'///<>• aureum, /<'. AmmcaawiH 

 (or E.fioridum), 8. sanguineum. 



Of these varieties, only the Crandall is generally 

 known, and even this has Little commercial or even 

 domestic value. This is 

 Ribes aureum, the Bpecies 

 generally known as the buf- 

 falo or Missouri currant. 

 There are a few other 

 Darned fruit-bearing varie- 

 ties of this Bpeci< s, 

 but they are mostly 

 confined to the dry 

 :i> iif the West. 

 The Bpecies has also 

 been Long cultivated 

 ;i^ the flowering cur- 

 rant (Pig. 102). It 

 grows wild from Missouri 

 and Arkan>as westward. 



The (Yamhill currant was 

 named for k. W. Cran- 

 daU, of Newton, Kansas, 

 who found it growing wild. 

 It was introduced in the 

 spring of L888, by Prank 

 Pord & s«m, Ravenna, < >l , 

 This t > 1 •• - or Bpecies of currant undoubtedly has 

 great promise as the parent of 1 new and valuable 

 nee of small fruit. The Crandall, however, is too 

 rariabk to be reliable. Comparatively few plants pro- 



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■ if lmffalo 

 <>r flown lag <-urraut. 



of Rottlealtara t^r . . st«. 



