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which starts near the floor and runs up through the roof. By means of such an 

 arrangement of pipes, the temperature inside can be quickly reduced at any 

 time as low as that outside. It will evidently require to be so arranged that 

 when the temperature inside has been sufficiently reduced it may be tightly 

 closed up. In places where the winters are very cold, it is well to introduce 

 the air through an underground passage. 



Of course, it will be necessary to keep a thermometer in the fruit cellar so 

 that the temperature may be kept as even as possible. 



Such a cellar properly managed, will be well adapted to keep fruit in good 

 condition during the greater part of the year. Of course, in the summer, when 

 tiie nights are too warm to furnish cool air, the arrangement will fail of perfect 

 success. 



In the Canadian Horticulturist for 18S9, page 283, there will be found 

 an article written by J. J. Thomas on " Fruit Rooms and their Management."' 

 A perusal of that article will be very serviceable to any one desiring a more 

 elaborate and costly fruit house, than is herein referred to. 



THE CR.\XDALL CURRANT. 



Sir, — I had two bushes of the Crandall currant given me this year, and I have looked 

 through my books and reports and cannot tind anything with leterence to it. I am not at 

 all acquainted with it, and would like to know whether it is a currant worthy of a place 

 in the garden ? 



Mks. Johx George, Port Elgin. 



A late report of Cornell Experiment Station speaks of this currant as follows : 

 The Crandall is a simple variation of the Buffalo or Missouri currant {Ril'es 

 aureu/n), known in yards as the " flowering currant." It does not appear to be 

 a well " fixed " variety. Some of our bushes produce berries little larger than 

 those of the red currant, while others give fruits five-eighths of an inch in 

 diameter. It is also variable in period of ripening on our plants, although the 

 soil is uniform throughout the row. 



Our bushes were fairly productive, but a heavy crop could not be expected 

 from young plants. The habit of the plants indicate probable high productive- 

 ness. 



The plant is hardy and vigorous, and so far our specimens have been free 

 from insect attacks, although the currant worm' was very abundant upon adjacent 

 rows of common sorts. The bushes attain to a large size, and need more room 

 than other currants. 



The fruits are large and fair, bluish-black and polished. They separate from 

 the stem, and are, therefore, picked and sold singly, like gooseberries and cherries. 

 The flavor is sweet and agreeable, though not pronounced. There is none cf 

 the grossness of flavor characteristic of common black currants. It makes good 



