Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — Culture of Currants. [ARTICLE]

Culture of Currants.

Mr. Thomas Wolf, Barkley township, who is ail old English gardener, tells 11s that if in growing currant bushes from the slip, shoots'arc selected of two years’ growth and the lower three or four buds be out out (not rubbed otf, but ~~cut- into the wood) and set into the ground, no suckers will spring out from the roots hut the hush will grow with a single stem like a tree. These trees can bo made to , branch high or law as may he desired by simply rubbing off flic buds on tlmt portion of the stalk above ground, Lethe desired bight and afterward pruning as you would other trees. The _ advantages., claimed for this moi|e of cultivation arc better circulation of air through the branches and fruit and greater facility in hoeing.