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them out into God’s country. You will boast of 
your Bubachs and Samples and Senator Dunlaps 
—twenty to a quart. Your strawberry dishes wiil 
be frequently enlarged in size, and so also will your 
cream pitchers. We do not do things on so small 
a scale out in thecountry. My cream pitcher holds 
a quart. 
Currants and gooseberries are not in the Ros- 
aceee family, but they are so closely associated with 
them in home use and market that they must find 
a place in this chapter. ‘There are several species 
of currants grown by American gardeners. The 
ribes rubrum includes all the red and white vari- 
eties, and ribes nigrum the black varieties. The 
growth of all varieties and the culture is about the 
same. The currant likes a moist soil, but not wet, 
and clay in preference to sand. It will, however, 
grow in almost any soil, with proper tillage. But 
to do its best the currant must be abundantly fed. 
I apply my compost either late in the fall or early 
in the spring. ‘Thoroughly decomposed barnyard 
manure is excellent for the currant, if applied at the 
same season as the compost. The black currant 
is rather more drooping in growth, and needs to be 
set somewhat wider in the row than the red and 
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