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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1906 



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 recovery of an abandoned home in New 

 Hampshire, we found among other unex- 

 pected assets buried in grass and weeds a 

 row of four currant bushes, or rather a 

 disreputable lot of black, knotty sticks, not 

 over eighteen inches high, of unnumbered 

 years. 



When the turf was removed, and the earth 

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These old currant bushes which had not borne for 

 years bore a good crop the first year after a little pru- 

 ning and fertilizing in the fall 



of them, and the dead wood cut out, the few 

 living twigs with scanty foliage looked even 

 more unpromising than when in their knee- 

 high tangle. That summer the entire yield 

 from four bushes was a pint of fruit. As I 

 had never owned a currant bush before, I 

 was grateful for this small favor, though I 

 forgot to count it among my blessings. 



Further pruning was given the row in the 

 autumn, and it was then covered with a foot 

 of manure. The following spring a part of 

 the dressing was dug in about the roots with 

 the spading fork, for our soil is naturally thin 

 and gravelly even for New Hampshire, and 

 more was added. This served the double pur- 

 pose of mulch and fertilizer through the 

 summer and protection to the roots in the 

 winter. The second summer the yield was 

 two and a half quarts of fair-sized currants. 

 This treatment of removing the old wood 

 and fertilizing every autumn has gone on for 

 ten years, and such a row of currant bushes 

 as we now have would be hard to match. 

 Some of the bearing stalks are fifty-eight 

 inches high, and a single bush yielded this 

 summer a peck of currants of superior size 

 and flavor. Meantime two new bushes had 

 been added, and the row, now numbering 

 six, bore over a bushel of fruit. 



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 edly when the bushes are in full leaf, and, if 

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