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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. 
NeW Qiapt 
These two Currants are novelties of great importance. 
When you consider the enormous size and beauty of the fruit, 
great productiveness, hardiness and vigor of the bushes (out- 
yielding other varieties almost two to one), we may be 
pardoned if Ave feel a little pride in being the introducers of 
them. Empire is deep ruby-red; Purity, pure white—the 
tAVO contrasting magnificently when seen together. In size 
the fruit is often 2 >4 inches in circumference, and borne in 
clusters four inches long, AAdiile bushes tAVO years from the 
cuttings yield six to ten quarts each. The fruit being so A-ery 
large and excellent, sells readily at almost double the price 
realized for other sorts. It seems hardly necessary to say 
anything more about them. Their great value AviJl be ap¬ 
parent, Another A-aluable point about these neAV Currants is 
their lateness in ripening, They ripen someAA'hat later than 
other varieties, therefore escaping the great glut and Ioav 
prices which Currants bring in the height of the fruiting sea¬ 
son. Empire and Purity, coming in later and being so much 
finer in size and appearance, virtually have the field. 
Empire— Zncav giant red. 
Purity— Hew giant Avhite. 
Childs’ Giant Ruby—One of the finest of all Currants. It 
is of remarkable strong groAvth, and in the size and 
quality of the fruit it is really a marvel. The berries 
are very large, borne in enormous clusters of twenty to 
thirty, yet leaving room near the Avood to made picking 
easily done without bruising or crushing the berries. 
In color they are the mo.st beautiful ruby-scarlet, spark¬ 
ling and glossy, and, being so large in size, they catch 
every eye, and sell more readily and for much better 
prices than any other variety. It is now being largely 
planted where Fay’s and other sorts have been pulled 
out, for it is a greater and surer bearer than any other. 
In this locality it easily produces three or four times as 
much fruit as Pay’s or Cherry, and the fruit is certainly 
much finer in eA'ery respect, Mr. N. Halloek says: 1 
have groAA’ji the Giant Euby Currant for four years. 
Bushes three years set yielded the past season five pounds 
of fine fruit, AAdiere Fay’s Prolific, in the same lot, has 
been an entire failure. Of the seven or eight kinds I 
groiv, Giant Ruby yields, double the quantity of fruit Ot 
any of them.” 
>RICE— 20c. each; $1.50 per dozen. One each of the 3 sorts for 50c.; 3 each for$1.25; 12 each for $5.00. 
