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these, after the bush is four years old, the young wood should be 

 wholly cut away every winter. This however is only applicable 

 to standard currants, where large fruit is wanted ; when cur- 

 rants are grown upon walls, and the object is to preserve 

 fruit upon the tree from the currant season till the middle of 

 winter, as is done in some places, the mode is to have the fruit 

 rather smaller, and to have the tree large, and so much covered 

 with fruit as to admit of few shoots. The former practice 

 is excellently carried on at Duddingston, and the latter at 

 Archerfield. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF THE CULTURE OF CULINARY EXOTICS. 



Among plants or fruits which in this country require artificial 

 climates, the pine first deserves attention. Much has been 

 written respecting its culture, and much still remains to be 

 done. The largest fruit and most uniform crop that I have 

 ever seen was at Kelham House *. The soil in which they are 



* In the year 1802 Mr. Griffin the gardener cut twenty queen pines, which 

 weighed together eighty-seven pounds seven ounces : — in 1803, one weighing five 

 pounds three ounces ; — in July 1804, one of the New Providence kind weighing 



