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Show GOOSEBERRIES AND CURRANTS Soil Requirements Are More Exacting Than Those of Blackberries and Raspberries. The soil requirements of both gooseberries and currants are a little more exacting than those of either blackberries or raspberries, but a reasonably rea-sonably good soil can be made to produce pro-duce these crops If tlie location la right, and the proper kind of fertilizer fertiliz-er used. A northern slope is to" be preferred rather than a southern or eastern, and about the home, there Is no better place than on the north of buildings and between the rows of fruit trees in the orchard. In the northern limit of production they would not need this protection from the sun. A sandy soil Is not suited to either gooseberries or currants, though In some places in the extreme North they grow in the mountain! where there seems to be little soil of any kind. |