Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . d in full sunlight and is beau-tiful throughout the year. When it is desirable to unite themargins of a plantation of evergreen trees or large shrubswith the ground, or to plant the shaded banks of a brookflowing through a rocky gorge, there is no better plant forthe purpose than this Alleghany shrub, which possesses aconstitution that enables it to bear uninjured the severeclimate of New England. All the North American Leuco-thoes, of which half a dozen are distinguished by botanists,are first-rate garden plants ; and
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . d in full sunlight and is beau-tiful throughout the year. When it is desirable to unite themargins of a plantation of evergreen trees or large shrubswith the ground, or to plant the shaded banks of a brookflowing through a rocky gorge, there is no better plant forthe purpose than this Alleghany shrub, which possesses aconstitution that enables it to bear uninjured the severeclimate of New England. All the North American Leuco-thoes, of which half a dozen are distinguished by botanists,are first-rate garden plants ; and they are all easy to culti-vate, with the exception, perhaps, of the beautiful Leuco-thoe Davisiae, which inhabits the high Sierra Nevada ofCalifornia and has not yet been satisfactorily tested in ourgardens, although it was introduced into England as longago as 1853 by the collector Lobb. Like many other Cali-fornia plants, however, it is difficult to manage in the east,and probably will never become a popular garden plant here. January 15, 1896.] Garden and Forest. 25. 26 Garden and Forest. [Number 412. Cultural Department. About Currants. THE marked development in recent years of the interest incurrants as a market fruit has naturally been accompaniedby the introduction of many new varieties and some old varie-ties under new names. The newer candidates for favor includethe Eclipse, North Star, Red Cross and Wilder of the red kinds,and Marvins Seedling-, Caywoods Seedling and White Ver-saillaise of the white kinds, and several other sorts. None ofthese have been fruited here long enough to determine theirproductiveness. North Star, introduced from Minnesota, makes « vigorousupright or somewhat spreading growth. The color of thefruit is much like that of the Red Dutch ; bunches mediumlength; fruit probably large under good cultivation, but varyingfrom small to large. Red Cross, from seed of Cherry fertilizedby White Grape, was originated by the originator ot BrightonGrape. Th
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