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Illustrated Catalogue of Fruit Trees. 
BLACK CURRANTS. 
SPECIAL OFFER OF STRONG FRUITING BUSHES. 
We devote considerable attention to the production of Blaok Currant Bushes, and our stock is 
again a very fine one for this Season’s Sale. Vigorous in growth whilst sturdy in habit, our bushes may 
be relied upon to give good orops soon after planting. We propagate our stook only from young 
dean wood, a most important point to remember, and they are free from disease. 
Having a large stook we are able to offer them at lower prioes than last year, and to any one 
having suitable ground it is impossible to devote it to a more remunerative purpose. Blaok Currants 
are often thought to be unworthy of much attention— but this is wrong. If carefully planted and 
regularly mulched with well-rotted manure, the ground being kept clean, there is no garden crop 
wnioh will give better returns in generous valuable crops. 
Orders may be booked for delivery any time after the middle of Ootober, and are exeouted in date 
rotation as reoeived. 
BLACK CURRANTS. 
SEABROOK'S BLACK. A splendid Black Currant which possesses a strong constitution. 
A most prolific bearer. Our stock is perfectly clean. Those who are troubled with big bud or 
__ tejwnff off in fruit are strongly recommended to try it. The best market variety we know. 
BOSKOOP GIANT BLACK, The finest Black Currant yet introduced. It is of extraordinary 
vigorous growth with long bunches of enormous fruit. Flavour, sweet and rich. A first-rate 
variety for exposed situations, and although it flowers late it ripens early. 
’ Each. Per doz. Pei 100. 
Extra Strong Transplanted Two-year old Bushes, 
Fruiting size, with good roots . . 1/- 10/- 75/- 
Good, strong, Two-year old Bushes, well rooted . . 8d. 7/- 507- 
Special quotations for large quantities to Fruit Growers and Market Gardeners by 
return of post. 
NOTES ON CULTURE. 
Black Currants thrive best in a deop cool moist soil. On a dry sand or gravel, and on hot 
shallow soils they are practically useless. They often grow luxuriantly on wot soil, but are liable 
to disease when the land is sour. A soil containing abundance of humus or vegetable matter suits 
them well, as such a soil is, as a rule, sufficiently damp for the moisture -loving rootlets, and sufficiently 
cool to prevent their over stimulation. The surface roots are vory sensitive both to mutilation and 
v G £ ound occupied by Black Currants should therefore be disturbed as little as possible 
a “®r *5 e bushes are established ; and on the majority of soils a mulching of manure before the advent 
of the hot season will often preserve the plants from a serious check. 
As the finest fruit is produced on last year’s wood, pruning must be confined to the removal of 
old and superfluous wood, the shortening of growths of undue length, and the thinning out or complete 
removal of suckers, according as the plant is grown as a natural bush or a olean stemmed tree. 
