. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. FRUIT CULTURE IN FRANCE 353 duced fruit the next spring. The commercial cultivation of the raspberry is carried on extensively in the neighbourhood of Paris at Bagnolet, Montreuil, Fontenay, Bourg-la-Reine, Sceaux, Verri^res, &c.; in Burgundy at Dijon ; and in Lorraine at Lundville, &c. The first crop is ripe in June, and the second in September and October. Remove the first flow^ers in order to procure a better crop later on. Raspberries are eaten raw, or used in confectionery, ices, liqueurs, &c. The varieties most commonly grown ar
. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. FRUIT CULTURE IN FRANCE 353 duced fruit the next spring. The commercial cultivation of the raspberry is carried on extensively in the neighbourhood of Paris at Bagnolet, Montreuil, Fontenay, Bourg-la-Reine, Sceaux, Verri^res, &c.; in Burgundy at Dijon ; and in Lorraine at Lundville, &c. The first crop is ripe in June, and the second in September and October. Remove the first flow^ers in order to procure a better crop later on. Raspberries are eaten raw, or used in confectionery, ices, liqueurs, &c. The varieties most commonly grown are :—Fastolf, Horner, Pilate, with red fruits ; Orange de Binkle, with yellow fruit. Autumn-fruiting varieties— Merveille des Quatre Saisons, Belle de Fontenay, with red fruit; Sucrh de Metz, Surprise d^Automne, with yellow fruit. THE CURRANT Currants prefer a situation partly shaded to one exposed to the full sun. Light rather than stiff soils are best for them. The currant is often grown in the worst position in the garden. This certainly lessens its value, for the fact must not be lost sight of that although certain fruits require less than others, there is a minimum of requirement which must not be passed. Currants may be cultivated in beds and borders, the bushes being i m^tre distant from each other, or trained fan-shaped. Propagation.—Currants are increased by taking cuttings in winter, or by layers in spring. For com- merce the currant is cultivated in bush form, but the amateur can, as we have said above, train it fan-shaped on iron-wire trellises, or have it upon short stems, or again on a higher stem (i metre) by grafting upon Ribes aureum. Palmate-trained plants give the finest fruit, but it is perhaps hardly worth while to train them thus. Standards and half-standards are very decorative. The fruit is good, easy to gather, and never soiled by the splashing of rain. The life of such plants, however, is short, while grown as bushes one may have currants in full
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