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Bordeaux will fetch up to 60 francs per 50 kilos.; this price 
drops to 50, 40, and 30 francs during the height of the season. 
Red Currants, being of more value to the preserver and to the 
chemist, and for ordinary household purposes, will fetch 10 
francs per 100 kilos, more than the white ones. In France we 
estimate that 1 are of Currant bushes will produce 20 francs' 
worth of fruit. 
The Lambersaert and Lompret plantations in the North, with 
bushes 1^ metres across, will yield up to 2,000 francs per 
hectare, the purchaser gathering the fruit at his own expense. 
On such fertile soil, and with a climate so favourable to 
Currants, bushes will produce as much as 18 kilos, of fruit, 
value 40 centimes per kilo. In the north-west of Lille and 
round about Lomme Currant-growing is very popular. In large 
plantations 10,000 bushes are grown per hectare, yielding 
6,000 kilos, of fruit. The rows of Cherry and Plum trees, 
planted at a distance of 10 metres, largely add to the value 
of the field, and also protect the Currant and Easpberry bushes 
from spring frosts. 
The village of ChampigneuUes, near Nancy, has one entire 
side planted with Currants, the bushes being shaded here and 
there by standard Cherry, Plum, and Pear trees. 
The confectioners of Bar-le-Duc, of such renowm, purchase 
a large supply of the Bouge variety from Eosieres-devant-Bar, 
Lavallee, and Ancerville ; and also of the Blanche variety 
from Bar-le-Duc and Behonne. The jam manufactories at Bar- 
le-Duc and Ligny turn out annually 200,000 pots of Currant 
jelly and jam. Currants are also largely grown round about 
Andelys, and are sold to the jam and liqueur makers in Eouen 
and London. 
Black Currants (Bibes nigrum).— One can always be sure of 
a sale for Black Currants on account of the large quantity used 
in the distilleries, but we need not trouble at that, for as it is 
the public-houses are supplied with far too many inferior wines. 
The Dijon Black Currants have a well-known reputation. They 
are abundantly cultivated in the Bourgogne district, especially 
from Dijon to Chagny, and from Nolay to Montbard. The hill- 
side vineyards of Vougeot, Vosne, Chambolle, and Marsannay 
also produce the finest Black Currants— the very cream of Black 
Currants. The bushes are planted among the vines, or along the 
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