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varieties of the garden StrawbeiTies are also obtained from the American 

 species (F. mrginica), and from the F. grandiflora of Surinam ; and the 

 Bishop's Strawberry, the American Scarlet Strawberry, the G-arnstone's 

 Scarlet, the Hudson's Bay, Melon, and Roseberry Strawberries, are all well- 

 known varieties of the American species, while the Black Prince, Bullock's 

 Blood, and others, are varieties of F. grandiflaVa. The black and blush Chili 

 Strawberries are derived from F. chilocnsis, a South American species, which 

 produces some of our largest and richest fruits. Many writers believe that 

 all the species from which they are said to be derived are one and the same 

 in reality, assuming different forms and qualities under different circumstances 

 of soil and situation. 



The chief supply of strawberries for the London markets was formerly 

 derived from Twickenham and Isleworth ; and, as a writer on this fruit has 

 observed, one of the most remarkable instances of the power of the human 

 body to endure great and continued fatigue was shown by the strawberry 

 women, who, during the season, would carry a heavy basket twice daily from 

 Twickenham to Covent Garden, walking upwards of forty miles. Fatigue 

 like this would soon destroy a horse ; but these Cambro-Britons, who came 

 purposely from the Welsh collieries, endured the labour for weeks without 

 injury or complaint. 



St. Pierre's observations on the number of insects which are nourished by 

 a Strawberry-plant are very interesting. He had placed one of these plants 

 near his window, and was amused by observing that in the course of three 

 weeks no less than thirty -seven species visited the Strawberry ; and at length 

 they came in such numbers and variety, that he desisted from attempting to 

 count or describe them. They were, he says, distinguished from each other 

 by their forms, colours, and manners. That little plant, which is so pleasant 

 and so refreshing to man, was not framed for him alone. 



This naturalist then, by means of a lens, examined the leaves of the 

 plants, which, he says, he found divided into compartments, covered with 

 hair, separated by canals, and interspersed with glands. These compart- 

 ments appeared like large verdant carpets, and their hairs seemed to resemble 

 vegetation of a particular order ; some of them were straight, others inclined, 

 others forked, and hollow like tubes, from the extremities of which issued 

 drops of liquid ; and their canals, as well as their glands, seemed to be full 

 of a sparkling fluid. 



9. Bramble, Raspberry (Bubus). 



* Leaves pinnate w ternafe. Stem nearly erect, biennial, woody. 



1. Common Raspberry {R. idmis). — Stems round ; prickles straight ; 

 leaves pinnate, with 5 or 3 serrated leaflets, white with down on their under 

 surface ; foot-stalks channelled ; flowers axillary and terminal, corymbose 

 and drooping ; petals as short as the calyx ; fruit downy. Plant perennial. 

 The Raspberry-bush, though a familiar object in the garden, is not a frequent 

 plant in the woods and hedges of England, though in the north of this 

 kingdom it is not of very rare occurrence in rocky woods, and it grows also 

 in several southern counties among trees and bushes. A writer, describing 



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