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CARTERS’ BLACK CHAMPION CURRANT. 
AWARDKD A 
FIRST CLASS CEBTIPICATB 
BY THE 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
This valuable Introduction was pronounced 
by the Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, as well as by every member of the 
profession who saw the specimens we ex- 
hibited, to be the finest Black Currant ever 
seen at South Kensington. Many of the 
berries are so largo as to be taken for 
medium-sized grapes. The bunches are very 
long, and the flavour of the fruit particularly 
luscious and delicate; Another important 
feature is its robust habit and power of 
resisting drought. The berries exhibited 
before the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
Committee were gathered after the excessive 
and prolonged heat experienced in July, 
1881, and when other varieties of Black 
Currant in the same garden were leafless 
and the fruit dried up, the Black Champion 
retained its freshness, and the fruit con- 
tinued in the greatest perfection. 
It is the longest and latest hanging 
variety in cultivation, good fruit having 
been gathered the last week in September. 
Unlike other varieties, it will bear the most 
severe pruning without prejudice. 
“Royal Horticultural Society, August 9. — 
Fruit Committee. — A First Class Certificate was 
granted to fruits of a new seedling Black Currant named 
Black Champion. The individual fruits were of 
remarkable size, globular, and very black. The 
bunches also were unusually large, and, judging by the 
small branches exhibited, the variety must be an 
extremely prolific one. Several unhesitatingly affirmed 
it was the finest Black Currant that has been seen at 
Kensington .” — The Journal of Horticulture. 
“Messrs. Carter and Co.'s Seed Farms at 
Dedham and St. Osyth. — A walk over Messrs. 
Carter and Co.’s Seed Farms with a party of observant 
critics furnished material for reports more lengthy than 
can be attempted in these pages at the present time. 
Once more we saw the Champion Black Currants that 
many times have made an initiatory sensation for 
visitors for rarely have bushes been seen so loaded with 
huge bunches of jet black currants as large as cherries 
crowded on the old wood, and in many instances 
weighing down the stout branches to the ground,” — 
Gardeners' IUaj;azine, 
Ae the annual demand Is very great, we advise 
early orders to prevent disappointment. 
Each. Per dor. 
Price ; Nice Healthy Plants Is. 9s. 
Currants —Other Varieties. 
Strong plants, price 6s. per dozen. 
B LAC K. 
Black Grape. | Lee’s Prolific. { Black Naples. | Large Black. 
Bunney’s Large Red. 
Large Red. 
Champagne. 
RED. 
Early Red. 
Napoleon. 
WHITE. 
Red Dutch. 
Walker’s Red Cherry. 
Large White. | Transparent White, etc., etc. 
Gooseberries. 
Best Lancashire, named, 6s. oer doz. j ditto, not named, 4s. per doz. 
Raspberries. 
CARTERS’ PROLIFIC. one of the finest red varieties in cultivation, 
4s. per doz. ; 25s. per lOO. 
Per doz.— f.* d . 
Fastolf 3 0 
Northumberland Fillbasket 4 0 
October Red 4 0 
Per do2. — X. d . 
October White 4 0 
Red Antwerp 3 0 
White Antwerp ... 3 0 
CARTERS’ BULBS in the ROYAL PARKS in 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891— see pp. 8 and 4. 
C 2 
CARTERS’, 237 & 238, HIGH HQLBORN, LONDON. 
