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The berries are large, with large pips and small seeds. They have no 

 hard core, in fact no core is perceived in eating them; all is soft, sweet, 

 luscious, with a high flavor; canes very hardy; good for commercial pur- 

 poses; ripens rather late in the season. 



Stone's Hardy. — Very good for a cold climate. Perfectly hardy, 

 strong grower; requires thorough pruning, as it sets more fruit than it can 

 mature under ordinary cultivation. A good family berry; ripens in mid- 

 season. 



Taylor's Prolific. — Where hardiness is of importance this is an ex- 

 cellent variety. Canes of strong growth and very prolific; berries larger 

 than Snyder, sweet and rich; ripens late, after main crop of other kinds 

 are gone. One of our best market varieties and extensively grown. 



Wilson, Jr. — An early variety of large size and handsome appearance, 

 productive, of splendid color, and an excellent shipper, becoming more 

 popular each year. One of the finest market berries we have, but a lit- 

 tle tender for our Northern latitude, where it occasionally winter kills; 

 exceptionally valuable for all purposes where it can be grown. 



CURRANTS, 



There is perhaps no other specie 

 of the small fruit family, with the 

 possible exception of the Strawberry, 

 that is so generally adaptable to our 

 varied conditions of soil and climates 

 as the Currant and probably none 

 other of these fruits are so easily, suc- 

 cessfully and profitably cultivated 

 over such a wide range of country. 

 For several years past there has been 

 a surprisingly and constantly increas- 

 ed demand for this valuable fruit. 

 At the present time it is one of the 

 most popular of all the small fruits. 

 Its great and growing popularity is 

 probably owing to the fact that the 

 fruit is desirable and available for 

 so many separate purposes. It must 

 be admitted that the demand for this 

 fruit has been pretty generally suppli- 

 ed; nevertheless, we find good fruit 

 bring good paying prices to the grow- 

 er one year with another and the 

 large growers of currants seem to be 

 enlarging their plantations, which of 

 itself, is good proof that this is one 

 of our most profitable fruit crops, 

 and the writer can, from years of ex- 

 perience, testify to the correctness of 

 this observation. We have in the 

 past years grown and marketed many 

 crops of this fruit that have brought 



