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[Todd Ravitch <travitch@yahoo.com>]

Maybe I was going through this to quickly.  I had a
weeks worth to go through.  I thought I saw that
someone had Ben Lomond.  Aren't the Ben series part of
the canadian breeding program and not 100% Ribes
Nigrum???  If this is the case this may be why it has
a bitter taste.  

I actually have 3 black currant varieties that I
started from dormant cuttings that I ordered from
Corvallis.  These are fairly older varieties and not
available from nurseries that I can locate.  I have at
least three each or each variety.  I will be more than
willing to send one variety of each plant out once
they go dormant which will be a few months here in
Oklahoma.  I would prefer to send them to someone
close to me as that way maybe I can see them after a
good year or two in the ground.  I will only ask for
postage costs.  I have French Black, Noir de Borgnone,
and Royale de Naples.  

I also have 3 gooseberry varieties going as well from
hard wood cuttings.  I had no problem starting them at
all.  Stuck em all in a half compost/half peat mix and
watered em regularly.  I have the original English Red
Jacket, a gooseberry from Turmenistan (very strange
leaf shape and I suspect it is most likely not a pure
Ribes una-crispa variety), I also have a variety from
Hungary or Poland that I don't remember asking for
(need to look at the tag).  This is all I have at the
moment.  I am in the middle of a divorce and all the
Ribes I bought from Lucille and put in the ground last
fall have been subject to the gardening care of the
soon to be ex-wife.  I will be happy if the next
owners have half of them still alive as she has the
brownest of thumbs except when it comes to weeds.

Todd


                
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