RI'BES MULTIFLO'RUM. 
MANY-FLOWERED CURRANT. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. WONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
grossclacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Hungary. 
5 feet 
April, May. 
Shrub. 
in 1822. 
No. 1035. 
The name of our present genus is said to be of 
Arabic origin, from Ribas, the name of a medi- 
cinal plant. Its parentage accounts for the irregu- 
larity of its adjective. 
Among the numerous species of Ribes with 
which our gardens and shnibberies have been 
furnished, from America, none have been found 
valuable for their fniit. Few, if any, reduce it 
freely ; and its quality is generally harsh and 
unpalatable, but possessing flavour or fragrance, 
which, with proper modification, and in combina- 
nation with SAveetness, would be acceptable to the 
taste of most persons. When we consider how 
unpromising would be thought the original parents 
of our now most valuable fmits, it is not too much 
to e.xpect, that by a series of patiently well-directed 
experiments in the culture of these shrabs, from 
seeds, both with and without hybridization, some 
valuable new varieties of fine-flavoured fniits may 
be obtained. 
The fniit of Ribes multiflomm we have not 
seen; its flowers are in long pendulous racemes, 
and showy ; and the shnib grows freely. 
