THE BLACK NAPLES CURRANT.
Black Naples. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 187.
This very good variety of the Black Currant
is cultivated in the Carden of the Horticultural
Society, where our drawing was made, and is
there considered the best of the class. It appears
in the catalogues of the principal Scotch Nurseries,
and seems to be most known in the northern parts
of the kingdom, where it probably originated.
Its superiority consists, not only in the larger
size of the fruit, but in the clusters being more
numerous on the bushes, as well as in each cluster
bearing a greater number of berries.
The B u sh spreads but little, its habit being rather
upright.
The L e a v e s and B lo s s om s are produced earlier
than those of other varieties; but the F r u i t ripens
later : its flavour is similar to that of the other cultivated
Black Currants.
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