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I have never seen in any other country than
Norway any approach to these currant bushes.
The fruit was growing not merely in bunches, but
in great masses of bunches ; a large handful might
be gathered with a single pull, and these
agglomerations were so numerous that the branches
were borne down by them, and trailed upon the
ground. I counted seventy fine bunches of red
currants, growing on six inches of stem. When
in Norway before, I noticed the wonderful yield of
the cherry trees in this neighbourhood, i. e. at
the mouth of the Jostedal, and attributed this
redundance to the regular pruning that must have
resulted from the custom I observed at Ronnei,
of serving a branch of cherrv tree laden with fruit
as a dessert and centre ornament of the
dinner-table. I resolved to imitate this pretty custom if
ever I became the fortunate possessor of a cherry
tree in my own garden.
A few years afterwards this vision -was realized
as far as the possession of fine cherry trees was
concerned, but the dessert was a failure, and
this failure suggested another and I believe the
true explanation of the wonderful yield of the
cherry trees and currant bushes of Norway. If I
gathered my ornamental branch of cherry tree
when the earliest of the fruit had just ripened,
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