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best general policy is to take runners from the youngest 
fruit-bearing plants, then there is likely to be the smallest 
possible percentage of barren plants in the new plantation. 
When the young plants are established they will 
commence to send out new runners, but these must be 
assiduously cut or pinched off, and the whole energy of each 
plant be directed into developing and perfecting plump and 
strong crowns and good foliage. 
The after culture will consist of the usual routine of 
mulching the plants each winter with long manure—or 
manure containing plenty of litter or straw—having previously 
hoed and raked off the weeds, and broken the surtace of the 
soil an inch or two deep with a fork. This mulching supplies 
the requisite food to the plants, prevents the escape of 
moisture from the soil in times of drought during spring and 
summer, and the washed litter assists in keeping the fruit 
clean, thus easily ‘Killing three birds with one stone.’ In 
addition, the preservation of moisture about the roots of the 
plants, during the flowering of the plants and the ‘‘ swelling” 
period of the fruit, materially increases the quantity and size 
of the fruit. Cut off all runners as fast as they appear (unless 
they are wanted for propagating purposes), and destroy all 
weeds immediately they are seen. 
By following the foregoing simple process of culture, all 
persons with available ground (which is not a bog) may 
grow for themselves good crops of this delicious fruit. 
LIST OF 
THE BEST VARIETIES OF SMALL FRUITS 
most suitable for general purposes. 
CURRANTS. 
Biack.—Carter’s Champion, Lee’s Prolific, Black Naples, 
Baldwin’s. 
Red.—Grape, Raby Castle, New Dutch. 
White.—Dutch, White Transparent, Shilling’s White. 
