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Garden Work 
The Black Currant is a very profitable crop, and fully 
repays one for the small amount of work necessary in its 
cultivation. 
Red and White Currants are generally propagated by 
cuttings from io to 12 in. long of well-ripened wood. In 
this case all the buds should be rubbed out with the excep- 
tion of four, as the bushes are grown with a main stem. 
The young bushes will be ready for planting out into their 
permanent quarters in the second or third year, when they 
should be hardy little bushes with from six to twelve 
shoots, which will form the foundation of the future bush. 
They may be planted from 5 to 6 ft. apart on well-culti- 
vated and manured soil. A good loamy soil is best for 
currants, but fair crops may be obtained on almost any 
soil. On light soil they will generally benefit from a good 
mulching of rough manure, with copious supplies of manure 
water in dry, hot weather. 
Red and White Currants fruit on spurs as well as on 
the young wood, so that in pruning the knife may be used 
more freely without risk of reducing the crop. The main 
branches should be run up, and the laterals cut close back, 
laying in a new branch wherever required as the branches 
grow and widen out at the top. After the bushes have 
filled the spaces allotted to them, the pruning will consist 
in “cutting back" all the shoots forming spurs, which will 
Varieties — 
Baldwin. 
Boskoop Giant. 
Goliath. 
Naples. 
Defender. 
Victoria. 
RED AND WHITE CURRANTS 
