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be much sought for among market growers, possessing as it does 

 all the requisites for a profitable kind, and unlike most others it produces 

 no small berries, and will furnish a supply of fine fruit nearlythroughout 

 the Strawberry season, the last fruit swelling to a good size, and, owing 

 to its small foliage and dwarf habit, will admit of being grown much 

 closer together than many other sorts. It is also a very hardy kind, 

 ..and bears heavy crops. 



Fruit large, mostly of a heart-shaped figure, handsome, and well 

 formed. Colour dark glossy red, seeds thinly spread, and nearly 

 imbedded in the fruit. Stalk slender, with small pointed calyx resting 

 on the fruit. Flesh red, fine grained, and firm, extremely juicy, with 

 a good flavour ; although perhaps not so rich as some, it nevertheless is 

 a very agreeable refreshing fruit. 



4. Prince of Wales. 



Also one of Mr. Ingram's seedlings, raised from British Queen 

 impregnated with Keens' Seedling, partaking of both its parents. It is 

 a Strawberry adapted to all purposes, being an excellent early forcer, a 

 good dessert berry, and one of the best for preserving, making a very 

 rich bright jam or jelly, similar in colour to the red Currant. It also 

 produces excellent fruit in the autumn from the early forced plants. 



Fruit of good size, and varies in shape from globular to oval, and 

 sometimes angular ; seeds thinly set and imbedded. Colour bright deep 

 red, and glossy. Calyx moderately 

 large, with a strong fruit-stalk. Flesh 

 hvely red, solid, dehcate, and juicy, 

 with a rich vinous perfumed flavour, 

 combined with a slight acidity, which 

 renders it very agreeable. The fruit 

 will bear carriage well, and commence 

 ripening ten days before the British 

 Queen, and will continue a month in 

 bearing. The habit of the plants is 

 dwarf and compact, very hardy, and 

 proUfic. 



5. La Deliance. 

 This is a pale fruited worthless 



kind, and does not possess one good 

 property to recommend it. 



5. Filbert. 



Although the British Queen, when 

 in perfection, surpasses all other kinds, 

 it is not without faults. Firstly, the 

 plants are tender and very impatient 

 of wet through the autumn and winter 

 season ; secondly, the fruit is hable to 

 come green pointed, especially in 



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cold summers, like the present ; and, 



lastly, few soils are suitable for its cultivation. A Strawberry of fine 



texture, more hardy, ripening better, and of equal size and quality, is 



much wanted, and from what I have seen of the Filbert it 



these desirable properties. 



