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A. C. GRIESA & BRO., LAWRENCE, KANSAS. 
CURRANTS. 
Currants should be planted 4 feet apart in the garden. Sawdust or tan-bark 
should be used as mulch. The Currant flourishes in almost every kind of soil, but 
to have the fruit in perfection, plant in rich, deep soil, 
and give good annual pruning and cultivation. When 
plants are grown as stools or bushes, the older and 
feebler suckers should be cut out. When grown in 
the form of a tree, with single stem, the bearing 
wood should be thinned, and the stem and root kept 
free of suckers. 
Pomona. 
Cherry. The largest of all red Currants ; berries 
sometimes more than half an inch in diameter ; 
bunches short ; plant very vigorous and productive 
when grown on good soils and well cultivated. 
Fay’s Prolific. For size, beauty and productive- 
ness the most remarkable red Currant ever grown. 
A. M. Purdy, of Palmyra, N. Y., says ; “We counted 
over thirty large clusters on a branch received by 
us measuring 14 inches in length. The berry is fully 
equal to Cherry Currant, while the flavor is much 
superior. The stems are double the length on an 
average, and the fruit hangs on well, never dropping, 
as in other Currants. We measured bunches 4 and 6 
inches long.” 
Pomona. This variety first attracted notice for 
its enormous productiveness and quality some twenty- 
three years ago ; has been fruited for market eighteen 
years ; plants never offered for sale until this spring. 
It has the greatest actual acreage yield on record. In 
one year (1894) the crop of fruit from 6 '/i acres of 
Pomona Currants was sold at wholesale for over 14,076, 
or over $627 per acre. In three consecutive years 
(1892, 1893 and 1894), the fruit from this same 
acres of Pomona Currants was sold at wholesale for 
$9,000, making over $1,384 per acre, or over $461 per 
acre per year. In 1892 the fruit from this 6}4 acres of 
Pomona Currants was sold for over $3,400 per acre, yet 
of the eighty-three rows making the acres, nine- 
teen rows were planted in 1887, forty-one rows in 
1889, and twenty-three rows in 1890, making the 
average time these had been planted less than 3 1-5 
years, and the sixty rows first planted had borne a 
heavy crop in 1891. Eighteen years with but one 
failure, and that in 1895. A heavy crop again in 
1896. Plants eighteen years old produced this year 
more than two gallons each, and in 1894 these same 
plants produced twelve quarts each. 
Red Dutch. An old, highly esteemed sort, hardy 
and reliable ; fruit medium size, bright red and of best quality. It is well to plant 
some high-priced new kind if you want a pet, but if you want Currants, plant Red 
Dutch. 
White Grape. Very large, yellowish white, sweet or very mild acid ; excellent 
for the table ; the finest of the white sorts ; very distinct, having a low, spreading 
habit and dark green foliage ; very productive. 
OWARF SERVICE OR JUIVEBERRY. 
Grows 4 to 6 feet high, branching out from the ground like currants ; resembles 
the common Service or Juneberry in leaf and fruit, but the fruit is larger, and in 
color almost black, beginning to bear the second year after transplanting, and bears 
profusely. 
■WUetlier You Are Planting: a Nation or a Tree, Do It 
Well. 
