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CURRANTS. 
Tlie Currant, from its free growth, hardiness, easy culture, 
great and uniform productiveness, pleasant flavor and early 
ripening, is one of the most valualjle of our summer fruits. By 
its multiplied uses for the table, botli in the green and ripe 
state, for jelly, wine and canning, it becomes a source of 
health, economy and domestic comfort throughout the year. 
More Currants are needed for making jelly than for all other 
purposes combined. For this purpose there is nothing to be 
gained by growing the large varieties, such as Cherry or Fay's. 
What you gain in size you lose in productiveness. The can- 
ning establishments, and any one who has had e.xperience in 
making jelly, will pay no more per pound for Cherry Currants 
than for Red Dutch, but grocers and other dealers in fruit 
will pay about a cent or two per pound more for Cherry 
Currants than for the smaller varieties. Whatever variety 
you plant must be vigorous to productive fruit of e.\tra quality. 
A bunch from a well cultivated, highly manured and properly 
pruned Currant bush will weigh at least twice as much as a 
bunch from a neglected bush, growing in grass and weeds. 
The markets are never onedialf supplied with the choice, large 
Currants. Our stock of about .^n.ooo plants contains the very 
best varieties for the market gardener to set out by the acre, 
or for the family garden. Parties who wisli to plant by the 
thousand should write us for special prices. 
Crandall. A new black Currant, from west of the Missis- 
sippi, distinct from the European black varieties, and without 
their strong odor. Though productive of large fruit, public 
opinion seems to be divided about its real value— some esteem- 
ing it highly. It has not fruited on our grounds. $3 per doz. 
Cherry. The largest of all red Currants; bunches short, 
plants vigorous and productive. It requires good soil and 
high culture to produce berries five-eighths of an inch in 
diameter. It has been difficult to get Cherry Currants which 
arc unmi.\ed with other sorts. We now grow them from our 
own bearing bushes. Strong plants, 2 years, $2 per doz. ; first 
selection, i year, $1., 50 per doz. ; extrast'roitgplants, $3perdoz. 
Fay's Prolific. Quite similar to Cherry, with sometimes 
longer clusters and not quite as acid, nor as strong a grower. 
Plants 2 years old, $2 per doz. ; plants i year old, $i per doz. 
North Star. A new Currant of large size and very long 
bunches, sent out by the Jewell Nursery Co., of Lake City, 
Minnesota. Their new catalogue contains an elegant colored 
plate of a branch in bearing, and description too longto insert 
here. It has borne fruit in our nnrserv, and we find the plants 
to be more vigorous and productive, and of better flavor, than 
any other red Currant. A distinguished fruit-grower writes 
of this variety: "The new Currant is a good grower, great 
bearer, of good flavor, and hangs on the plants a long time after 
being thoroughly ripe." i year, $2 per doz. 
From Rev. J. W. Lane.— Fine trees. Don't see how you could find 
lumber and pack them for the cost you named. 
