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Warners Red Grape , I consider tlie best of all Currants, for general purposes. 
The bunches are about 6 in. long, while the berries are large, of a fine bright 
red colour, and have a pleasant sub-acid flavour. The fruit hangs a long time 
on the tree ; it is therefore a good kind for growing on north walls, and in that 
aspect will keep fit for use till the end of November. 
The Gloucester Red is a fine dark red variety. The berries are large, but 
the bunch is short; the fruit is, however, less acid than other red kinds, and more 
suitable for the table. The habit of the tree is short and stubby, and it requires 
high cultivation to have it in perfection. 
The Cherry Currant is the largest of all red kinds ; the fruit is of a fine 
glossy dark red, of good flavour, and ripens early. It deserves a place in every 
garden. 
The Raby Castle is an excellent kind; this and the Warrior's Grape are the 
two best for jelly, and all culinary purposes. The trees are of robust growth, and 
very prolific, producing large fruit of good quality. 
The White Dutch is an excellent currant; it and the White Grape are the 
best of the white varieties. The bunches are long, with large berries of a 
yellowish white colour, transparent, and agreeably sweet; they will keep a long 
time fit for the table, when grown on a wall with a north aspect. 
The Black Naples and the Black Grape are the best of their'class. The 
latter is perhaps to be preferred, as the fruit are larger, sweeter, and more agree¬ 
able to the palate. 
Little need be said in regard to cultivation. Any soil will grow currants, 
provided it is well trenched, and plenty of rotten manure is used. The situation 
should be an open quarter. This provided, annual dressings of manure in the 
autumn, plenty of room, and close pruning are the chief points towards ensuring 
fruit in abundance.—J. Powell, Frogmore Gardens. 
GARDEN LITERATURE. 
MONGST the signs of the times, the evidences that public taste is beginning 
again to recognize the value and beauty of hardy herbaceous plants, may 
be noted the appearance of sundry publications having relation thereto. 
It is but a few months since that we noticed the issue of Mr. 
Robinson’s Alpine Flowers for English Gardens , and still more recently his Wild 
Garden; and now we have before us several numbers of Alpine Plants* a 
handsome drawing-room book, freely illustrated by plates containing well- 
executed figures printed in colours. The aim of the projectors has been to put 
within reach of the flower-loving portion of the public, faithful figures of some of 
the most beautiful Alpine Flowers, accompanied by useful and trustworthy 
information concerning their structure, history, uses, and cultivation. The 
* Alpine Plants; comprising Figures and Descriptions of the most striking and beautiful of the Alpine 
Flowers. Edited by David Wooster. London: Beil and Daldy. 
