. Catalogue for fall 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Rochester Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Red Cross Currant. Greatest of all currants. JRural Neiv Yorker says: " Eed Cross is the best of all old or new currants for mid- ; N. Y. Experi- ment Station says it is large and productive. The masses of fruit were so dense as to completely hide the bearing canes from view. Jacob Moore says this is a peculiarity of the Red Cross. We have cut off some of the branches thus heav- ily laden and sent them to the Rural New Yorker, Country Gen- tl
. Catalogue for fall 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Rochester Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Red Cross Currant. Greatest of all currants. JRural Neiv Yorker says: " Eed Cross is the best of all old or new currants for mid- ; N. Y. Experi- ment Station says it is large and productive. The masses of fruit were so dense as to completely hide the bearing canes from view. Jacob Moore says this is a peculiarity of the Red Cross. We have cut off some of the branches thus heav- ily laden and sent them to the Rural New Yorker, Country Gen- tleman, as well as to leading pomologists. These people have said to us they never saw anything to equal the Red Cross as shown by specimen branches. E. "W. Reid says he is re- markably impressed with this variety, especially for its large size and productive- ness, it being much superior to Fay's in every respect. We have picked stems of this currant seven inches long with 23 to 26 currants upon a single stem. It is the most vigorous grower of all currants we have tested. It seems as though this variety would create an epoch in currant growing. You cannot make any mistake in planting the Red Cross Currant. The plants we offer are well rooted and very strong. Now is a good time for planting cur- rants, gooseberries and raspberries, as well as many other varieties. Prof. Maynard, of Amherst College, (Hatch Experiment Station, Mass.,) says Red Cross Currant, as seen at Rochester, aver- ages larger than Fay's Prolific, and is more vigorous. Jacob Moore, the originator, to whom we paid $1,, saw it in fruit here and says it is twice as large as "Victoria, will yield Cherry and is of better quality than any of the older varieties. P. C. Reynolds, the veteran horticulturist of Rockester, N. Y., says that the Red Cross Currant averages larger than Fay's or Cherry, and is sweeter than most other varieties. He says that the clusters are longer and that the size of the berry
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