RATIONAL FRUIT CULTURE 



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are rarely injured. Eed Currants, and also Gooseberries, are 

 sometimes grown as cordons. In that form they produce finer 

 fruit, but, of course, the quantity is smaller than on a bush 

 with more bearing wood. 



PRUNING BLACK CURRANTS. 



As Black Currants fruit mainly on the young wood of 



Fig. 36 Black Currant Pruned. 



