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-fflien it comes. Yet they will well repay by the abundance, 

 and excellence, and beauty of their fruit, the little labor their 

 cultivation requires. 



Fig. 213. 



a. I lick Nil* 



6. Red Dntcli. 



They may Idc set out at four or five 

 feet apart, and either kept to a single 

 stem, or to two or three. Satisfactory 

 results will be obtained if the bushes are 

 kept clear of grass and weeds, the ofT- 

 shoots from the collar of the root sup- 

 pressed, the head of the bush kept rath- 

 er open than otherwise by thinning out 

 any excess of l)earing shoots, and com- 

 pact in form Ijy shortening the young 

 wood, according to its strength, to from 

 one half to one third of its last year's 

 growth in the winter pruning as direct- 

 ed for gooseberries, p. 346. 

 Cm-rants may be planted in almost any soil or situation, and 



c. White 1 lutcli. 



