Narrative
Plants medium to large, vigorous, upright when young becoming more spreading with age, dense, usually productive, healthy, young shoots few, very stocky. Flowers early in medium to long, drooping rather few-flowered racemes, pale green with slight red. Fruit early, clusters small, short, loose, 10-13 berries, drooping, berries cling well only for a comparatively short time, very large, not very uniform, round bright but dark red, skin thin, smooth, tough, translucent, flesh very juicy, firm, acid or mildly subacid, pleasantly flavored, quality good. -SFNY. 1925. Discarded 9/93, duplicate of CRIB 19. Plants medium to large, vigorous, upright, when young becomming more spreading with age, flowers early in medium to long drooping rather few flowered racemes; green with red; ring well developed, fleshy distinctly brownish. Fruit early, clusters small, short, loose, 10-13 berries; berries cling well only for a comparatively short time, very large, not uniform, round bright but dark red, skin thin, smooth, tough, translucent, flesh very juicy, firm, acid or mild subacid, pleasant flavor, quality good.---------------------------------------------------This old variety is one of the most popular currants for home and market in America. Bunches and berries are large, and as they are borne on vigorous plants, the variety becomes one of the most productive of the large-fruited currants. The berries are a beautiful birght red, very large, though not always uniform in size, and well flavored. Defects are that the plants do not sucker freely so that the bushes sometimes have too few stalks; there is a tendency in the canes to "go blind, " that is, to lack the terminal shoot; and the short-stemmed bunches are born so close to the wood that the crop is hard to pick. The variety seems to have originated in Italy, thence it came to France about 1840, and from France was introduced into America by W. W. Falk, Flushingm, Long Island in 1846.Plant large vigorous, upright-spreading, dense, productive; suckers few. Leaves cordate, lobes ovate, rugose, pubescent, margin crenate; petiole 2 inches long. FLowers early, R. vulgare type. Fruit early; clusters short, thick, loose, 10-14 berries; stem short, making fruit difficult to pick; berries very large, cling well, round, dark red; skin smooth, tough, transparent; flesh red, medium juicy, firm, mild subacid; quality good; seeds large, rather numerous. Hedrick, U.P. 1922. Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits. The Macmillan Company, NY. p. 301.--------------------------------------------------------
= Cerise, Macrocarpa, Groseille Cerise