Currant* And Gooseberries

These should always be grown as miniature trees, on clean stems nine inches or a foot high. In preparing for bushes of this kind, cuttings of young wood about twelve or fourteen inches long, should be selected, and all the buds cut clean out, except the two uppermost; plants from these will never throw up suckers, will be more fruitful, and, with skilful pruning, may be grown as regular and pyramidal as a Glout Mor-ceau Pear on a quince stock. The Black Currant is worthy of more general cultivation; although not a choice dessert fruit, it is the most valuable of all for preserving, particularly for medicinal purposes; it also makes a superior wine.

Currants For Profit

Experienced cultivators say that they cannot discern the difference between the Cherry and the Versailles currant, in size or flavor. Be this as it may, yet growers for profit generally prefer the true Versailles, as being more productive. The crop of currants, this spring was excellent, and more abundant than usual. Ordinary Red Dutch currants brought but six to eight cents per pound, - while a few fancy Cherry currants brought eighteen cents. It is estimated that at only six cents per pound, an acre will yield $300, and at ten and twelve cents, $600 dollars profit. As they cannot be grown in light, warm, loamy soil, and must be grown on heavy, cool, moist soil, it follows that they are limited principally to Hudson River, Connecticut, and further north, and when the crop ripens, it does so all at once. It is one of the most profitable fruits any one can grow.

Currants. Cherry

Mr. Cabot: Add to the list the Versaiilaise, as large as the Cherry two and a-half inches in circumference. Very sweet; strong grower. Mr. Field: The Cherry a little acid, but a great market currant. Dr. Sylvester: Good grower, large, acid, good eating. Mr. Judd: Wells & Provost planted thirty acres for preserving. Mr. Cabot: Rampant; good for wine. Mr. Lyons: No better than Large Bed Dutch; a little larger and more acid. Mr. Hovey: Acid, vigorous, productive; not good for table; good for preserves and jelly. Mr. Saul: Preferred the Versaillaise and the Large Red Dutch. Added to list as promising well.

Cusenta Americana, (Dodder.)

This is a slender, yellow, parasitic vine, twining about other plants, in damp, shady places. It has small white flowers, and being destitute of green herbage, its curious aspect arrests our attention.

The Cusnino Raspberry

We learn from a pomological correspondent in Philadelphia, that plants of this fine new variety, originated by Dr. Brinckle, and figured in a previous vol. of this Journal, " were loaded with crops of handsome and fine fruit all the month of November." Its ever-bearing qualities were not, we think, known, when it was first described, and they add very much to its value.

The Cut Leaved Sumach

Mr. W. Robinson, in his new book of the " Subtropical Garden" gives prominence to an American plant little thought of by American ornamental gardeners, the eat leaved variety of the common Sumach (Rhus Glabre). The Editor of the Hearth and Home says: "The plant, which, though it has been known these twenty years, is scarcely to be found in our collections, is yet one of the most beautiful shrubs we have ever seen. Its cut leaves have a wonderfully fern-like appearance, and the whole habit of the plant is charming, while its appearance, when it pats on its autumnal colors, is brilliant beyond description".