THE CHASE NURSERIES, GENEVA, N. Y. 
CURRANTS 
THE Currant ripens just before Raspberries are gone, continuing in prime 
order for several weeks. It is of pleasant acid flavor, hardy, a free grower, 
easy to cultivate, and a certain and heavy cropper. Because of its hardiness 
and free growing tendencies, it is often neglected, but good cultivation and 
careful pruning will double the size and quality of the fruit and increase the 
profits. Currants are the most profitable of smaller fruits. An acre yields 
from 200 to 250 bushels of fruit. Plants should be set in rows four feet each 
way, allowing plenty of light and air. For protection against the currant 
woi-m dust a little white hellebore powder over the bushes when the leaves are 
damp. Do this as soon as worms appear. 
Black Champion.— Bushes large and 
flavor of fruit particularly delicious. 
It hangs long on the bunches, and un- 
like other varieties, bears the severest 
pruning without detriment. 
Black Naples. — Very large; black, 
rich, tender, and excellent for jellies 
and wines; very productive. 
Cherry. — Very large, deep red, 
rather acid; bunches short. Plants 
erect, stout, vigorous and productive. 
Fay's Prolific. — Originated in Chau- 
tauqua County, N. Y. A cross be- 
tween Cherry and Victoria; of large 
size, fine flavor, and claimed to be 
five times as prolific as the Cherry. 
A great acquisition. 
La Versaillaise. — Very large, red; 
bunch long, of great beauty and ex- 
cellent quality; one of the finest and 
best and should be in every collection. 
Very productive. 
Lee's Prolific Black. — A new Eng- 
lish variety. The fruit is large and 
of superior quality; the bush is a vig- 
orous grower and enormously pro- 
ductive, rendering it very profitable. 
Perfection. — A cross between Fay's 
Prolific and White Grape. Color is a 
beautiful bright red. Size as large 
as the Fays or larger, the clusters 
averaging longer. It is the most pro- 
ductive large red currant of which we 
have any knowledge. Season of 
ripening is about the same as that 
of Cherry or Fay. Quality, rich, mild, 
sub-acid, plenty of pulp with few 
seeds. Less acid and of better qual- 
ity than any other large red currant 
in cultivation. A good grower, with 
very large healthy foliage. Awarded 
the Barry, Fifty Dollar Gold Medal 
of the Western New York Horticul- 
tural Society. July. 1001, after three years' trinl. 
The first fruit to receive this grand prize. Re- 
ceived Highest Award ijivm any new fruit at 
the Pan-American Exposition, also received prize 
at Louisiana Purchase E.xposition, St. Louis, 1904. 
Victoria.— A late bearing red variety. Ber- 
ries are large and grow in very long bunches. 
Victoria is a fine bearer and is grown for com- 
Perfection 
mercial purposes in many parts of tlie country. 
White Grape. — V^ery large, yellowish white, 
sweet, of very mild acid. Excellent quality- 
very productive. Best of the white varietioa. 
Wilder. — It is one of the strongest growers 
and very productive. Bunches of berries very 
large, bright, attractive red color, and hang on 
bushes longer than any other variety. 
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