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THE CHILI STRAWnERRY. 



is quite different from the true Rid Afagnni?! 

 Boniuii, and as it is a very large and good 



Fig. 30. Duane's Purple Plum. 



fruit, it should retain its name of Duane's 

 Purple, and drop the appellation of French. 

 The French plum, so long unknown to those 

 who have cultivated it about Schenectady, 

 is the genuine old Peach Plum, and we are 

 delighted to find it, like most other Euro- 

 pean plums, better here than in Europe. 

 To aid cultivators in identifying the sorts. 



J Fig. 37. The Red Magnum Bonum. 



we give also a figure of the Red Mag7ium 

 Bonum, from a fruit now before us. It is 

 known in some parts of the country as Red 

 Imperial. It is a freestone, with smooth 

 shoots. Duane's Purple is a clingstone, 

 with quite downy shoots. The Nectarine, 

 Goliath, Red Magnum Bonum and Duane's 

 Purple, are among the largest purple plums, 

 but we consider them all decidedly inferior 

 to the Columbia in size, and more particu- 

 larly in flavor. 



THE CHILI STRAVTBERRY. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, BY J. W. KNEVELS. 



[The following is an extract from a very 

 long article on the Chili Strawberry, pub- 

 lished in the Jlllgcmeine Garten-zcitung, 

 (Garden Gazette, of Berlin,) translated from 

 the German, for this magazine, by J. W. 

 Knevels, Esq., of Fishkill Landing. The 

 Chili Strawberry is an enormous and superb 

 fruit, but seldom seen in this country, the 



cultivation of which is usually so little un- 

 derstood, that it is soon lost. We saw 

 some very fine plants three years ago, in 

 the garden of Wm. H. Aspinwall, Esq., at 

 his fine country residence, on Staten Island. 

 These plants were brought direct from 

 South America. 



This article possesses some points of 



