308 Timothy Grass. 
sent to gather red currants. In the course of his labors, he came 
to a bush, the last in the row, which bore large and superior fruit. 
He then went to his master to enquire what sort it was. He re- 
plied he did not know; but went and looked at it, and then re- 
membered that when he planted the row, he lacked one plant, 
and looking around the garden, found a seedling under a goose- 
berry bush, which he took and planted — and this proves to be the 
bush in question. It was then propagated extensively, and when 
Mr. Charlton commenced a nursery on his own account, he ad- 
vertised and sold it as the Houghton Castle currant. It has since 
been called " Victoria " and " Raby Castle red currant," by other 
cultivators, and has been received in this country under the name 
of " May's Victoria currant." — Genesee Farmer. 
GRAFTING CURRANTS. 
The Gardeners' Chronicle recommends, for the pretty appear- 
ance presented, as well as improved flavor, to graft currants of dif- 
ferent colors, as the red, black, and white, variously intermixed 
on stocks trimmed up to a single stem, three or four feet high. 
The tops may be headed down to a dense compact head, or trained 
as espaliers in the horizontal or fan method, the two latter modes 
of training, by the free exposure to the sun and air, much improv- 
ing the quality of the fruit. The importance of trimming the 
bushes up to the single stem, to improve the fruit, and facilitate 
clean culture, instead of suffering two hundred and fifty suckers 
to shoot up all around into a dense brush heap, is very obvious to 
those who have tried both. — Boston Cult. 
TIMOTHY GRASS. 
This plant forms the " third " in our list of the grasses ranged 
in the order of utility. It is the " phleum pratense," or the " mea- 
dow fox tail," of botany — so called from [Greek,) an arundo, or 
a gramentiphinum, growing in moist places. " Fleau de pres," 
[French,) and called " cat's tail " grass, from the resemblance of 
the spike to the tail of the cat. 
The English Flora enumerates six species of this grass, and of 
these only " one " claims the notice of the farmer, which is called 
" meadow cat's tail," and very often " Timothy grass," from the 
name of the gentlemen who introduced it by recommendation and 
example. 
This plant constitutes the best grass in the continent of North 
