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This is one of the best varieties in cultivation. A most abundant 
bearer, and ripening early. The bunches are long, and the berries 
large, full, and juicy, of a bright red colour. The plant is of a 
dwarf and somewhat slender habit of growth, never attaining a 
large size. The leaves broad and flat, deep green, having a sort of 
metallic glaucous hue, which renders it in appearance quite 
distinct. The synonyms here given are all referable to this one 
variety, and which is the one generally grown and known in this 
country as the Eed Dutch. 
2. Knight's Large Red. 
Synonyms. — Knight's Sweet Red ; Goliath ; Fielder's Red 
Palmer's Late Red ; Pitmaston Red ; Pitmaston Prolific ; Large 
Sweet Red ; Bertin No. 1 ; Dancer's Selected. 
This variety is not quite so early as the Red Dutch. It is a most 
abundant bearer. The bunches are long, and produced in immense 
clusters. Berries of medium size, of a bright red colour. The 
plant is of strong and vigorous growth, the shoots growing mostly 
erect. Leaves pale green, rather small, somewhat deeply cut and 
crumpled in appearance. This variety is the one in most general 
cultivation in the market gardens around London, having probably 
been selected for its fine vigorous constitution. Messrs. Krelage, of 
Haarlem, sent fruiting branches of this variety as the true Red 
Dutch Currant as grown in Holland. 
3. Old Red. 
Synonym. — Rouge Commun. 
This greatly resembles the preceding. The plant is of most 
robust growth, but a poor cropper and with smaU berries. It is 
most probably the original stock from which Knight's Large Red, 
the present common variety, has been selected. 
4. Red Cherry, 
Synonym. — La Yersaillaise. 
The berries of this variety are very large and handsome, almost 
like small cherries ; but they are produced very sparingly, the 
bunches frequently consisting of only one berry, and from twenty 
to thirty berries on a plant. The plant is of a gross spreading 
habit of growth. The shoots pale, very gross. Leaves very large, 
broad, deep green. It is unsuited for cultivation in the open 
ground, as the shoots from their gross nature break off so easily, 
