Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa 
Currants 
No fruit garden is complete without currants. 
They are easy to grow and yield abundantly 
every year. There is no other fruit that makes 
such bright colored, highly flavored jelly as 
the currant. Currants are also used in combi¬ 
nation with other fruits to give the color and 
“jell” that other fruits lack. A well cared for 
bush will yield several quarts of fruit in a 
season. 
Currants like cool deep soil and a little shade. 
They do well in such places as among fruit 
trees or along fences as well as in the open. 
They should be planted three to four feet apart 
and given good cultivation. They should be 
pruned once a year, preferably in the fall. The 
only enemy of the currant to give any trouble 
is the currant worm. This, however, is easily 
and safely checked by sprinkling Helebore in 
powder form (obtainable from your druggist) 
on the bushes as soon as the worms appear. 
An easy way to apply the helebore is to mix 
it with flour about 5 to 1. Put the mixture in 
a sifter and shake it over the bushes while the 
dew is still on them. 
Currants bear on second year wood as well 
as new wood, therefore you should cut and 
burn all wood three years old, leaving 5 or 6 
new shoots each year. 
CHERRY—The Cherry Currant is a vigorous 
growing, stocky bush. The clusters of ber¬ 
ries are rather short, yet the bush is a heavy 
bearer. The fruit is large, bright red in color, 
very juicy and of fine flavor, with thin skin. 
FAY’S PROLIFIC—Best of all the red Cur¬ 
rants; a great bearer, with long stems; clus¬ 
ters are large, with individual berries of good 
size. Flavor subacid; few seeds. 
LONDON MARKET — The London Market 
Currant has been grown for many years in 
the market fruit district of Michigan where 
it is very popular on account of its vigorous 
growth and heavy yields. Fruit red in color, 
clusters large, and berry good size. The Ex¬ 
periment Station of North Dakota lists the 
London Market as the best currant for that 
state. It can safely be recommended as one 
of the best. 
LONG BUNCH HOLLAND—The Long Bunch 
Holland Currant is an unusually strong 
growing bush and grows to immense size. 
The berries are large and borne in long, 
easily picked clusters which ripen somewhat 
later than other currants. The fruit is bright 
red and of fine quality. Do not hesitate to 
recommend the Long Bunch Holland for a 
heavy bearing market berry. 
PERFECTION—The Perfection Currant is a 
very large, beautiful, bright red currant of 
splendid quality. Very popular as a table 
berry, served with sug'ar and cream. A good 
seller on account of its great size and splen¬ 
did color. 
POMONA—The Pomona Currant is of good 
size; the berry is bright red; a very beauti¬ 
ful fruit on account of being almost trans¬ 
parent, and very few seeds. The bunches 
hang on the bush for a long time after ripe, 
without dropping. The Pomona is a good 
market berry as it holds up in shipping about 
the best of any good bearing variety. 
RED DUTCH—The Red Dutch currant is one 
of the oldest varieties, and is still the favorite 
with many. A heavy bearer of medium sized 
berries. The fruit is bright red and borne in 
good sized bunches that ripen very early. 
One of the most profitable of currants. 
■WHITE GRAPE—The White Grape currant is 
a very large white currant, probably the best 
of all white currants. High in quality and a 
favorite as a table berry. It does best on 
rich soil. 
Strawberries 
There are two classes of strawberries, June 
bearing and Everbearing. The Everbearing, as 
its name indicates, produces berries practically 
the entire growing season. The total crop from 
the everbearing plants, however, does not 
greatly exceed that of the June bearing, but is 
spread over the entire season. This is particu¬ 
larly appreciated late in the summer when all 
other berries are gone. 
We list only the staminate self-fertilizing 
plants, and only the outstanding varieties of 
those. 
Any good soil will do for strawberries. A 
northern exposure is a little less liable to in¬ 
jury by late frost in the spring. In small gar¬ 
dens it is well to plant them in hills IS inches 
apart. For field culture plant in rows 3% feet 
apart and one foot in the row. The plants 
should be set firmly with roots spread out, and 
watered heavily. Cultivate frequently until 
well established. 
MASTODON (Everbearing)—The King of the 
Everbearers. Produces enormously large 
berries of fine flavor within ninety days after 
planting and continue until freezing weather. 
Resists drought and frost-proof. The foliage 
is tough and grows tall and rank, covering 
the blossoms and berries, protecting them 
from frost and scalding sun. 
PROGRESSIVE — The Progressive Everbear¬ 
ing is a great ever-bearer. Earlier as a spring 
crop than any other berry; splendid quality, 
staminate, and almost as free a plant maker 
as its parent, the Dunlap. A persistent 
bearer from May to November. Fruit of fair 
size, resembling the Dunlap. 
SENATOR DUNLAP — This is the leading 
strawberry throughout the United States. 
It does well everywhere and produces enor¬ 
mous crops of fruit regularly. Senator Dun¬ 
lap has perfect blossom, bearing a good crop 
planted alone; is hardy, productive, a splen¬ 
did keeper and able to hold its own under 
any “rough and tumble” method of culture 
to which it is likely to be subjected. Senator 
Dunlap is a very heavy bearer of good size, 
