Most people who have given the matter a thought know that the currant of the grocer is a kind of grape, which grows in Greece, and differs from the ordinary grape in the fact that the berries are very small and rarely, if ever, produce a seed. The many, however, scarcely give the matter a thought, and few school boyscould answer the question, What is a currant? So we give with this a sketch of the fruit known to gardeners as the Black Corinth grape, and which is taken from a very valuable work, "Vines and Vine Culture," referring to the foreign grape, by Mr. Archibald F. Barron, of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, at Chiswick, London.

We have never seen this grape growing, and hence do not know whether the failure to perfect seed is owing to a deficiency of pollen or an imperfect pistil.