propagated by Seed. By T. A. Knight, Esq. 89 



to me to possess considerably greater merits than either of 

 their parents ; and one of the red will, I believe, prove larger 

 than any red currant now in cultivation. I sent specimens of 

 two of the above mentioned varieties, a red and a white one, 

 to Mr. Sabine, which were necessarily tasted, under many 

 disadvantages : for innumerable swarms of insects had de- 

 stroyed more than half the foliage of all the currant trees of 

 my garden, long before the fruit ripened, and it ultimately 

 ripened under almost incessant rain. I should, in conse- 

 quence, have delayed sending this account to the Society, till 

 I had obtained proper specimens of the fruit, to send at the 

 same time, but that my trees have sustained so much injury 

 from the insects, that I fear, few of them can produce fruit, 

 before the year 1819 ; and it is much my wish, that the merits 

 of those varieties should be tried in other soils, experience 

 having taught me, that, in very many cases, the same variety 

 of fruit will prove excellent in one kind of soil, and very 

 worthless in another. The currants produced in my garden, 

 owing, I conclude, to some peculiar qualities of the soil, are 

 always more than ordinarily acid; and therefore the new 

 varieties are more likely to become better, than worse, by 

 change of situation. 



Note by the Secretary. 

 The two varieties of currant, which the President sent to 

 me in the last summer, and to which he has alluded in the 

 preceding Paper, were, as he observes, tasted under peculiar 

 disadvantages. On referring to the notes I made, at the time 



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