. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THE CURRANT. 387 On looking under, the soil was always moist. Heavy pruning must follow the luxuriant growth thus produced. Currants thrive also when they are somewhat shaded, and consequently an excellent position for them is in the rows of young orchard trees. Clean cultivation cannot be too strongly insisted upon. The different varieties of the currant succeed nearly alike in the Northern, Middle, and some Western, but fail in the Southern States.
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THE CURRANT. 387 On looking under, the soil was always moist. Heavy pruning must follow the luxuriant growth thus produced. Currants thrive also when they are somewhat shaded, and consequently an excellent position for them is in the rows of young orchard trees. Clean cultivation cannot be too strongly insisted upon. The different varieties of the currant succeed nearly alike in the Northern, Middle, and some Western, but fail in the Southern States. Pruning the Currant.—In the culture of the currant three distinct modes are adopted. The first, which is quite common in this country, is to plant the bushes along garden fences, where they often grow up with grass, and being neither cultivated nor cared for, the fruit becomes small and of little value. This is the worst mode. The next is to culti- vate, but not to prune. The fruit on such bushes is fine while they are young, but as they be- come filled with a profu- sion of old bearing wood it diminishes in size., The third and best mode is to give them good, clean culti- vation, and to keep up a constant supply of young bearing wood, yielding large and excellent crops. The currant, like the cherry, bears its fruit on shoots two or more years old; and it is important that a succession of strong young shoots be maintained for this purpose. When a cane has borne two or three crops, the fruit usually begins to de- teriorate in size; therefore cut it out. In the mean time, a young cane should be coming on to take its place. After a bush has been in bearing three or four years, one or two of the old canes should be cut out each year. A good bush may. Pig. 524.—Raceme of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
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