THE HAFEES CEEEAHT, 
UTHORS are not agreed whether the Black 
Currant is or is not a native of England. Bri- 
botanists usually include it amongst our 
indigenous plants, but it would appear to be 
« \ery doubtful whether its seeds may not have 
been disseminated by birds, in all places where 
the plant has been found wild. When first mentioned, by 
writers of the sixteenth centuiy, it was called the Over-sea 
Gooseberry; and subsequently Currant, probably from its sup- 
posed alliance to the little seedless grapes of the Levant, so 
well known as Currants, formerly called Corinths, from the 
ancient city of Corinth, near to which they are cultivated. 
