NEW HYBRID FRUIT
An important discovery to Iho frultBrowlng and fruit-piTServinu,- as well as fruit-consuiniiiß, world 'nas (writes a correspondent to the. "?cofsmn.n") been mndo by Mr. 'James Lines" Speyside. He lias Krown a new berry. vcsembliiiß tlio black currant in colour and habit, and tho gooseberry In sizo and flavour. . The berry was grown on a Feedliiy: berry bush in Mr. Innes's cnrden~at Koserillo. Mr. Innes forwarded aamoles of the fruit lo Messrs; Sutton mid Sons, Hendiiiß, and to tho Edinl«rß?v and East of Scotland College of Agriculture atEdinbui-Rli. "and their replies both bear out flint the berries arc of H distinctly now variety. Tho
reply from the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture states:— "The specimens are most interesting', and would appear to bo a distinct cross between a gooseberry and a black currunt."
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 10
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138NEW HYBRID FRUIT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 10
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