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The Colorado Experiment Station. 
Ivanhoe (Perfect Flowers). 
Marshall 
Parker Earle 
Splendid “ 
Thompson 
Wm. Belt 
Haverland (Pistillate flowers). 
Warfield 
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Bederwood and Thompson bloom at the same time as War- 
field and Haverland, respectively, and are recommended for plant¬ 
ing with the latter varieties. 
Currants. 
Soil and Requirements .—Currants can be grown on almost all 
kinds of soils, though they prefer a deep, rich, moist loam. As in 
the case of raspberries, the land should be well prepared by deep 
and thorough plowing and subsequent pulverization of the soil. 
While fruit may be obtained from planting on dry land, the size 
and quantity of fruit produced is small and would not pay as a com¬ 
mercial proposition. For family use, however, enough can be 
grown with moderate expense and trouble. For dry land planting, 
fall plowing to the depth of ten or twelve inches is necessary. 
Planting should be done as early as possible in the spring, then 
thorough cultivation practiced until hot weather comes, or about 
the middle of June. Then the plantation should be carefully 
mulched with strawy manure or twelve to eighteen inches of short 
straw, which should be held in place by poles or other material to 
prevent blowing away and to compact the mulch to prevent evap¬ 
oration from the soil below. Deep fall plowing should be practiced 
regularly so as to be able to store up all the rainfall during winter 
and spring. The bushes should also be planted farther apart to 
permit plowing and deep cultivation. 
Planting. —One-year-old plants from cuttings should be used. 
The planting should be done as early in the spring as possible. Set 
in rows five feet apart and the bushes five feet apart in the rows. 
Cut back the plant to two or three buds to encourage branching. 
When severe pruning is practiced and when the bushes are grown 
to a single stem, four by four is sufficiently far apart, but where 
the bushes consist of a large number of canes, five by five is the 
proper distance. 
Cultivation and Irrigation .—Cultivation should be frequent 
and thorough and the plants should at no time suffer from lack of 
water. Frequent irrigation should not be practiced, as it tends to 
