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pains to procure all the varieties of noted merit, and in a year or 
two shall have them fully tested here. The following notice 
of one of the best, we copy ftom Hovey's Magazine: 
MAY S VICTORIA CURRANT. 
" In our article upon the Cultivation 
of the Currant, in a previous volume, 
we offered some remarks upon the im- 
portance of raising currants from seed 
with a view to the production of new 
and improved varieties. Among the 
smaller fruits, none possess a greater 
value than the currant, and yet none 
have received less attention at the 
hands of the cultivator. Mr. Knight, 
impressed with the idea that very su- 
perior kinds would be the result of 
proper attention to the growth of seed- 
lings, wrote an article upon the sub- 
ject, which was published in the 
Transactions of the Society. He also 
raised a great number of seedlings, 
and three of them were thought to 
possess such merits as to be deserving 
of names. The gooseberry has been 
improved from a small and austere 
berry, to a very large and delicious 
fruit: the strawberry has also been 
produced of such size and flavor, as 
to be -scarcely recognized as the off- 
spring of the wild berry of the woods 
and pastures. And why may not the 
same success attend experiments to 
improve the currant? There is no 
reason to doubt they will, and we may 
yet hope to see currants nearly as 
large as cherries, and possessing a 
flavor much sweeter and richer than 
any we now possess. 
The white and red Dutch currants 
have been cultivated for a great length 
of time, and have not, until now, been 
displaced by any new varieties. Mr. 
Knight's seedlings, though good, did 
-May's Victoria Currant not Supersede these old sorts. We 
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