The California culturist . urs truly, New England, May 10th, 1859. Wm. Bacon EDITORS REPOSITORY. 47 We are indebted to Mr. A. W. White, of Whites garden, Oak-land, for a box of splendid specimens of the cherry currant, andcertainly superior in point of size and flavor to any we have seenbefore. lu the first number of the first volume of the Culturist,we gave an engraving of the Red Dutch currant, exhibiting thetrue size of that old and highly esteemed variety. But, howeverlong and well it may have retained rank as the best currant of ourcatalogues, it must yield the palm to the cherry currant.
The California culturist . urs truly, New England, May 10th, 1859. Wm. Bacon EDITORS REPOSITORY. 47 We are indebted to Mr. A. W. White, of Whites garden, Oak-land, for a box of splendid specimens of the cherry currant, andcertainly superior in point of size and flavor to any we have seenbefore. lu the first number of the first volume of the Culturist,we gave an engraving of the Red Dutch currant, exhibiting thetrue size of that old and highly esteemed variety. But, howeverlong and well it may have retained rank as the best currant of ourcatalogues, it must yield the palm to the cherry currant. Thisvariety is easily distinguished from other red varieties by the shapeof the bunches and the more uniform size of the berries. It isseldom we find a bunch of more than eight berries, and very oftenwith but two or curraht. The engraving herewith, shows the exact size of a bunch and its individual berries, as found among the specimens presented us by Mr. White. As a variety it deserves extensive Fruit Favors.—Who would not be an agricultural editor? June 24th, 1859, is made memor-able with us as the day of the reception of a box of most superb raspberries, and the finest speci-mens of the British Queen strawberries that we were ever presented with. The donor, Mr. W. , of Oakland. May his berries never be less. Fruit Sales.—Do our agricultural and horticultural friends desire to know to whom they canconfidently consign their products for city sale ; we say emphatically, to J. Bryant Hill & Co., Merchant street, opposite Washington market. Monthly Journal of California State Agricultural Society.—Number two of thisserial was duly received. We can hardly conceive how a more fitting publication can well emanatefrom the office of a Corresponding Secretary of a State Agricultural Society than the little monthlymessenger to which we allude. Replete with short practical articles of the highest interest to theCalifornia agriculturist, i
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