La Versaillaise, La Hative, and La Fertile, three varieties comparatively new, are well worthy of cultivation. The first is the largest Currant known - larger, even, than the Cherry Currant: its bunches are very long. The second and third are well named, for La Hative is as early as Knight's Early Bed, but with berries much larger, and La Fertile is a most prodigious bearer, so that its leaves are hidden by its fruit.

Transparent White proves a most excellent sort Its fruit is more amber-colored than any other White Currant.

Currants #1

Red Dutch

New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, C. W., Missouri, Ohio.

Knight's Sweet Red

New York, New Jersey.

White Dutchr

New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Mass., Canada West, Missouri, Ohio.

White Grape

New York, Canada West.

Black Naples

New Jersey, Massachusetts, Canada West.

May's Victoria

Massachusetts, New York, Canada West.

Currants #2

M. R. (Utica ) No shrub shows the good effects of high manuring so completely as the currant. If you wish to get very large fruit, train the bushes on the north side of a trellis, and feed the roots well with half rotted stable manure.

Currant #3

Black Naples, May's Victoria, Red Dutch,

White Dutch, While Grape.

Currants #4

Black, should be treated similarly to the above. Red and white, fruit principally on spurs, therefore shorten all the shoots to encourage these, and keep up an annual renovation by cutting out old barren branches, and supply their place with young shoots from the base. Break, instead of cutting off all suckers from the roots, which will prevent their increase.

Grapes, hardy - should now be pruned, where it has been neglected at the proper season in November. The bleeding that follows late pruning may not be permanently injurious, still it cannot benefit the plant, and may as well be avoided. There are few dwellings without a grape arbor or trellis, of tasteful construction frequently, forming a striking contrast to the miserable appearance of the vines trained on them. Luxuriant and fruitful grapevines are the exception everywhere. Much of this depends upon the neglect, of proper pruning, but more frequently it results from the state of the roots. On clayey subsoils, which are cold and wet during winter, the young roots die at the points. They are late in budding, and a sickly shoot is produced which never ripens, and the winter kills it down to the main stem. The grape, above all other plants, requires a dry, or at least, a well-drained soil. A simple expedient in such cases consists in spreading a good dressing of enriched soil on the surface, and bending down the branches so as to cover a part of them six or eight inches in the soil. These will soon produce roots, which may be kept near the surface by annual topdressings.

These bent branches should be severed from the main stem after they are well rooted, and, by repeating this operation, healthy vines may always be secured.

Currants #5

"Looking over my sorts, I note down Red Dutch as best of all - best for table, for jelly, and if to sell to customers that know anything, best for market. If to sell to know-nothings, then the Cherry or Versallaise is the thing; it is large, sour, and juicy." .

Currants #6

We hawe the white and cherry currants, grown tree-fashion, which produce very large and beautiful fruit for the table, but for the substantial stock of jelly and wine, the good wife prefers the Old Red Dutch, grown on the old-fashioned thicket bushes, which yield enormously every season for us.

Currants #7

In the last report on the Fruit Crop, the Fruit Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, say that of currants, " La Versaillaise has uniformly taken the first prize, and is first on the list. Red and White Dutch are still standard kinds. In view of the growing scarcity of this health-giving fruit, and its enhanced price in our markets, our culturists would do well to extend their plantations, remembering to provide a generous supply of manure retentive of moisture; cultivating the ground as carefully as for pears, and guarding against all approaches of the currant worm. Nearly all our gardens are infested by this pest. The eggs of this worm are deposited singly on the branches and near the buds. As soon as hatched, the worm penetrates to the pith, on which it feeds, until the month of June, when it escapes as a moth to deposit another batch of eggs. It is manifestly impracticable to reach the borer when burrowed in the stem secretly destroying the heart of the bushes. But it has been asserted that the application of air-slacked lime, plaster, ashes, or even superphosphates, and whale-oil soap upon the foliage and stems of the bushes, have been found to be destructive of the pest.

Without having had experience, we suggest that these remedies are probably effectual only against the winged moth, which appears about the middle of June, and she may be prevented from depositing her eggs, either by the offensive odors, or by the gritty dust of the lime and plaster when fixed by the dews. Whether these remedies are effectual or not, of this we are confident, that good culture will insure good results".

New Cherry - "Mack Republican".

The Willamette (Oregon) Farmer says that President Snelling, at a meeting of the Oregon State Pomological and Horticultural Society, at Portland, July 23d, submitted for examination a seedling cherry of his own raising, which he calls the " Black Republican." This cherry is of a very dark color, and is rich and solid. Many of the cherries measure three and one-third inches in circumference each, and an inch and three-eighths in diameter. Some specimens of the branches of the tree with the fruit on them proved it to be an immense bearer.

Currants #1

A correspondent of an exchange, writing of small fruits from the banks of the Hudson River, says: In view of the large quantities of currants under way, the conclusion is forced upon me that it will not pay to plant any common tort; none but the best, and they given the best culture, to bring them to the highest state of perfection. The most successful cultivator here is William Knifflin. He has picked 5½ tons from 1¼ acres - 2½ tons of Cherry, and 2½ tons of Red Dutch - the former bringing from twelve to twenty cents per pound, and the latter considerably below. He paid out for picking over $100.

Currants #1

Of this fruit we have a good many varieties, but only a few that are, with common culture, productive enough to make good returns; these are, the Red and White Dutch, and the Versailles, the latter with proper attention yielding more, larger and better fruit than the former. Some horticulturists seem to think the Versailles, and the Cherry or Victoria as identical; this is a mistake; the latter has shorter bunches, berries larger, dark red, very acid, maturing early, suffering frequently from spring frosts, and being on this account a shy bearer. The Versailles, on the contrary, is as productive as the Red Dutch, bunches long, berries large, transparent red, and having, when fully ripe, less acid than any other currant. The great trouble is only to find the true Versailles, as there are more Red Dutch and other kinds sold under that name than genuine plants. Currants at three dollars per bushel, the average price of the last two years, equal to $500 or $600 per acre, pays well enough, and more should be planted.

For the home garden, besides those named, the Frauendorf and Grape are worthy of mention. The lover of Black Currants will be pleased with the Black Naples. Of the new varieties, the Heterophylla (ant-leaved) makes a very ornamental bush, and a new kind, without seeds, lately received, will, if productive, prove valuable.

Currants, to do well, require about the same treatment as gooseberries, but look out for the worm, and dose him with hellebore, or out the shoots he has attacked off during the winter; they can be easily distinguished.

It may not be out of place here, to remind you that in many parts of Ohio there is land well adapted to the growth of Whortleberries and Cranberries, which is now lying waste; experiments in this direction would probably lead to profitable result, and should be encouraged by this Society and our State Board of Agriculture.

Currants #2

The number of really good varieties of currants is short. There arc many kinds, but when we select the Red Dutch, the line is fully drawn. Other kinds are larger, but then, we only need currants for jelly, principally, and this kind is amply sufficient.

In our next article, we shall attempt to give our mode of small-fruit culture. .

Stanford, Ky.

Currants #3

There are some fifty or more varieties of currants in cultivation; but I think the following five sorts comprise all the really valuable merits known to belong to our cultivated kinds: Black Naples, Bed and White Dutch, White Grape, and Versailles.

It is almost impossible to make the soil too rich for the currant; and one rather heavy or clayey is preferable to a light loam or sand. But they will thrive in any kind of soil not too wet, provided it is rich. In warm climates, and rather dry soils, the ground among the plants should be constantly covered in summer with some kind of coarse mulch. This will keep down weeds, and the soil cool and moist. Young plants, of one or two years' growth from cuttings, are better than older; and the greater part of the top should be pruned away at the time of planting. Pruning, in after years, consists mainly in thinning out both old and young canes, as they become too numerous.