Three Articles on Growing Currants and Gooseberries - Including Information on Propagation, Planting, Pruning, Pests, Varieties

By Read Books Ltd.

This book is three instructional articles on growing currents and gooseberries, with information on planting, pruning, harvesting, pests and diseases, marketing, and many other related aspects. Easy-to-digest and full of useful information and invaluable tips, this volume is highly recommended for those interested in growing fruit, and would make for a worthy addition to home collections. Contents include: “Currents and Gooseberries”, “Red Currant”, “Black Currant”, “Missouri or Flowering Currant”, “Propagation”, “Mulching”, “Pruning”, “Tree Currants”, “Winter Protection”, “Marketing”, “Insects”, “Remedy”, “Lice”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Sep 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781473354906

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CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES.

THE currant will grow and fruit abundantly in almost any soil or situation in the Northern States if given good cultivation; and even when it has hut little care it is still very sure to produce a fair crop. However, no cultivated plant responds more promptly and generously to manuring and careful attention. The acid fruit in any of the various ways in which it is used is healthy and refreshing. It is not so universally esteemed as the strawberry, yet it is used in immense quantities each year, and first-class fruit carefully marketed generally pays the grower a good profit. No fruit is more satisfactory in the home garden. A currant bush once planted will continue to bear fruit for an indefinite period, often for thirty years. There are very many species of currants, but our cultivated kinds belong to the