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FALL CATALOGUE OF BULBS THAT BLOOM FOR 1897. 
Ghrrapt. 
Childs’Giant Ruby— This is the finest of all Currants. It 
is of remarkable strong growth, and in the size and qual¬ 
ity 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 wood to make picking 
easily done without bruising or crushing the berries. 
In color they are the most 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 Fay’s or Cherry, and the fruit is certainly 
much finer in every respect. Mr. N. Hallock says: U I 
have grown the Giant Ruby Currant for four years. 
Bushes three years set yielded the past season five pounds 
of fine fruit where Fay’s Prolific, in the same lot, has 
been an entire failure. Of the seven or eight kinds I 
grow Giant Ruby yields double the quantity of fruit of 
any of them.” 05c. each; 3 for 50c,; 7 for SI ; 100 for $10. J 
Crandall Tree— A strong and rapid grower attaining a 
height of seven feet and branching freely into a fine sym¬ 
metrical tree form; single shoots often grow four to five 
feet in one season. It bears every year a tremendous crop 
of large black fruit nearly the size of a grape, the quality 
of which is entirely unlike that of any other Black Cur¬ 
rant, as it has none of the odor or disagreeable flavor 
common to black sorts. Its quality is very fine indeed, 
and is not excelled for cooking in any form, either for 
pies, jelly, jam or sauce. Its flavor is that of the Sweet 
Currant, combined with the acid of the Cherry Currant. 
It is almost sure to commence bearing the first year and 
certainly will yield a big crop the second year. The fruit 
begins to ripen the middle of July and continues to the 
middle of August, the large berries being borne in clus¬ 
ters of four to twelve and cling to the tree a long time- 
after they are ripe before dropping. The currant worm 
does not infest this sort. It is of iron-clad hardiness. 
20c. each; 3 for 50c.; 12 for $1.75. 
Giant White— A splendid sort, bearing large clusters of 
white currants which are perfectly luscious. 20c. each ; 
3 for 50c. 
