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viz.: Vert long de Chine ; Turkey Long Green ; Peerless White 

 Spine; Perfect Pickling; Large White Bonneville; and Carter's 

 Best of All In 1882 the English Frame Cucumber, Giant of 

 Armstadt, was the finest flavored of all varieties tested, but con- 

 tained no fertile seed/ In the glass culture for our markets 

 seedless cucumbers are frequently found, and as under the con- 

 ditions that seedless fruits occur the vines set badly, it is often 

 tlie custom for the growers to place a liive of bees within the 

 glass-house so that these insects may further the act of fertili- 

 zation. 



Currant. Ribes rubrum. L. (Saxifrage.^). 



The berries are one-celled, and contain numerous seeds sus- 

 pended in pulp by long threads. Thor^^ recognizes eight botani- 

 cal varieties, the large-berried, the rosy-fruited, the white, the 

 pearl, the variegated leaved, the white-nerved, the flowers in 

 spikes, and the reddish. Duhamel^, in 1 768, describes the large 

 red, the flesh-colored, the white and the pearl. Forsyth\ in 

 1803, recognizes seven varieties; Thomas^ in 1867, describes 

 eighteen sorts, and Fuller^ twenty-six. 



The number of seed to the berry varies considerably in the 

 currant. In some countings' the Cherry variety averaged 14. i 

 seed to a berry, but some extra large berries averaged 15.2 seed 

 and one large bunch gave fruit with twenty seed. Some Red 

 Dutch berries averaged 4.8 seed, and some White Dutch 9.8 



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seed. In some unreported observations, seedling plants were 



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grown from seed taken from berries with few and many seeds. 

 The plants from the very seedful fruits were larger, coarser and 

 hardier than those grown from the few- seeding. The best fruit 

 was found in the few-seeded, but not equal to the fruit of named 

 varieties. The trial as regards corelation between seedlessness 



and quality was indecisive, yet full of suggestion. In the case of 



I Rept. N. Y. Ag. Ex. Sta. 1882, p. 126. 



2Monog. du genre Groseillier, 1829, p. 9. 

 3Duhamel du Monceau, arb, fruit, 1768,!. 266. 



4 Fruit Trees, Albany, 1S03, p, 113. 



5 Americam Fruit Culturist, 1S67, 427. 



6 Small Fruit Culturist, 1867, 203. 



7N. Y. Ag. Ex. Sta. Rept. 18S2, p. 80. 



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