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OTHER FRUITS. 



Mr, Carpenter also exhibited a variety of currants, cherries, 

 and raspberries. The Cattawissa raspberry bears better this 

 year than ever before. It is an ever-bearing variety — the best 

 crop in October. 



CURRANTS, HOW TO MAKE THEM BEAR. 



George H. Hite made an exhibition of some remarkably fine 

 Dutch currants, and in answer to the question stated that he pro- 

 duces them by careful trimming, cutting in the ends of the limbs 

 in early spring, and cutting away all three-year old wood. He 

 also cultivates the ground by hoeing very often. He also showed 

 some very remarkable specimens of limbs of cherry currants 

 loaded with fruit, and stated that this kind of currants must 

 never be pruned, if it is desired to produce fruit in the highest 

 perfection. The bushes will not bear pruning like the common 

 sort. He has to tie up the bushes to stakes as they grow limbs 

 six feet long, and are very productive. Mr. Kite's exhibition of 

 fruit was exceedingly interesting and his remarks instructive. 

 Several sorts of gooseberries shown by him were remarkably fine. 



CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES. 



Andrew S. Fuller exhibited specimens of white Holland cur- 

 rants, which grew upon very strong upright stems. The yellow 

 Imperial currant,, exhibited by Mr. F., is a new variety, very 

 handsome, and fruiting for the first time this year. The red 

 Imperial he also considers a very superior though not any bet- 

 ter, if as good, as the Versailles, which is an excellent flavored, 

 large-sized red currant. So is the red Angier. Mr. Fuller made 

 the following remarks upon the currant and gooseberry question : 



The English varieties of the gooseberry have never succeeded 

 in this country, only in prescribed localities, and we doubt if 

 they ever will. In fact, there is no place on the Eastern conti- 

 nent where the gooseberry has been brought to the perfection 

 that it has in England. In Italy, where it is found in its wild 

 state, it has never been cultivated to any extent, or thought 

 worthy of it. In Spain it is scarcely known ; in France it is but 

 little esteemed ; and in no country does it thrive so well as in 

 the humid atmosphere of England. And it is to this perfect 

 adaptation of the climate to the plant that we owe the great 

 improvement in this fruit more than to the skill of the cultivator 

 In Holland and some parts of Germany they have cultivated it 



