. Catalogue of small fruit plants, strawberries a specialty : spring of 1883 / Joseph D. Fitts. Nursery stock Rhode Island Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Strawberries Catalogs. J. D. FITTS' CATALOGUE OF SMALL FRTJIT PLANTS. 9 iCURRANTSi JL Currants prefer a moist, cool situation. Plant four feet apart each way. A thorough mulching is necessary for the best returns. They should be pruned in the fall removing the old wood and cutting back the young shoots about one-third, if the currant worm appears, dust with powdered white hellebore while wet with dew. Fay's Prolific.—For a long time fruit growers
. Catalogue of small fruit plants, strawberries a specialty : spring of 1883 / Joseph D. Fitts. Nursery stock Rhode Island Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Strawberries Catalogs. J. D. FITTS' CATALOGUE OF SMALL FRTJIT PLANTS. 9 iCURRANTSi JL Currants prefer a moist, cool situation. Plant four feet apart each way. A thorough mulching is necessary for the best returns. They should be pruned in the fall removing the old wood and cutting back the young shoots about one-third, if the currant worm appears, dust with powdered white hellebore while wet with dew. Fay's Prolific.—For a long time fruit growers have felt the want of a cur- rant that would be as large as the Cherry, and yet more prolitic than that variety. And, at last, it seems that the want is to be supplied by Fay's Prolific, a variety that originated fourteen years ago in Portland, N. Y., where it has been carefully cultivated for the past nine years alongside of the popular varieties, and proved by far the most prolific of all. Color, rich red. As compared with the Cherry currant. Fay's Prolific is equal in. SIZE, BETTER FLAVOR, WITH MUCH LESS ACID, AND FIVE TIMES AS PROLIFIC; also, from its peculiar stem less expensive to pick. Should it succeed as well all over the country, it will mark a great step forward in currant culture, and be worth thousands of dollars to the fruit-growers of the country. PRICES.—Strong one-year plants, $ each, $ per doz.; two-year, $ each, $ per doz. Olierry.—A strong growing variety. Fruit very large, glossy red, rather acid, valu- able for market. Strong two-year plants, $ per doz.; $ per 100. One-year plants, 75 cents per doz.; § per 100. Versaillaise.—Much like the Cherry, but the bunches are said to be longer. Pro- ductive, of the largest size, dark red berries. Two-year plants, per doz.; $ per 100. One-year plants, 75 cents per doz ; $ per 100. White Q-rape.—Tlie best white variety. Very large and unsurpassed for productive-
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