. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of grape vines, fruit & ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, plants & bulbs, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Lewis Roesch, Nurseryman, CURRANTS, See Price List on Page 28. The growing of this fruit and the Gooseberry is the easiest and least troublesome, and at the same time^most profitable, of any the fruit grower has to deal with. About the only thing to do is to keep the weeds down and to gather the crop, which latte
. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of grape vines, fruit & ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, plants & bulbs, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Lewis Roesch, Nurseryman, CURRANTS, See Price List on Page 28. The growing of this fruit and the Gooseberry is the easiest and least troublesome, and at the same time^most profitable, of any the fruit grower has to deal with. About the only thing to do is to keep the weeds down and to gather the crop, which latter process does not demand that close attention necessary for other berries. This fruit may be left to hang a week or two after ripe, if necessary, without any harm. They are usually gathered when pickers are not busy with raspber- ries. Plant Jin rowsjabout five feet apart and three feet in the row. On the red and white varieties the fruit |is mainly borne on the wood two years old, the black varieties on wood one year old. Prune accordingly. To kill worms on currant and gooseberry bushes, dust them with white helle- bore while the dew is on. Fertilize liberally. Yield—About one hundred and fifty bushels per acre and some two or three quarts per bush, but often a great deal more. Black Champion—The best black currant of European origin. Very large in bunch and of excellent quality. A very strong, robust grower. Cherry-Old and tried. Very popular in mar- ket on account of its great size and deep red eolor. Not as productive as Crandall-New, black. A seedlingr of the Missouri wild currant, exceedingly productive, a rank grower, thoroughly hardy, and free from inseet enemies and disease. The fruit is of the largest size, is free from that rank odor of other black currants, has a peculiar flavor of its own, and is as eatable ofl"-hand as the huckleberry which it resembles But its greatest usefulness is for culinary purposes, being unexcelled for pies, jams, and je
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