300 On tlie Cultivation of the Strawberry. 



Class I. Scarlet Strawberries. 



Old Scarlet. Early Virginia, early scarlet, scarlet, and 

 Morissiana scarlet, of ovir gardens : ecarlate de Virginie, of 

 the French. This is a very excellent high flavored straw- 

 berry : it is the earliest of all the varieties, though rather 

 a shy bearer ; the frait is middle sized, rather globular, of 

 a very light scarlet color; seeds deeply imbedded, flesh pale. 

 We have grown this kind, and no garden should be without 

 it ; it is perfectly hardy, and stands the winter without any 

 protection. It is full ten days earlier than any other kind. 



Grove End Scarlet., Atkinson's scarlet, and Wilmot's early 

 scarlet, of the catalogues. Fruit roimd, hemispherical, bril- 

 liant scarlet, flesh pale, and good flavor. This variety is 

 stated as a " first rate strawberry" in some works we have 

 seen. We have cultivated it for two or three years, but have 

 never produced any thing very superior. It is a good bear- 

 er, and the fruit of fine flavor, but not very large in size ; 

 we do not think it equal to the following. 



Royal Scarlet. This name we do not find in the English 

 works, or in the catalogues of nurserymen, except the 

 Messrs. Prince of Long Island. What its true name is, we 

 are not aware ; we first received it from Mr. Haggerston, 

 when he carried on the vineyard at Charlestown, vmder the 

 above title. The fruit is of large size, roundish, and of a 

 bright scarlet color ; seeds slightly imbedded ; flavor rich ; 

 flesh pale scarlet ; ripens next to the early Virginia. The 

 foliage is strong, and the fruit on rather long footstalks; 

 stands the winter well without protection. This variety 

 may be the American scarlet, as described by Mr. Thomp- 

 son, in Loudon's Encyclopedia of Gardening, new edition. 



Methven Scarlet., Methven castle (and Methuen scarlet as 

 often mispelt in some publications where it has been notic- 

 ed.) This strawberry, though not highly prized in England, 

 is in our climate a very valuable kind, and deserving of cul- 

 tivation in every garden, where a good collection is wanted. 

 It is a very hardy variety, and stands our winters, generally, 

 without the least protection. It is also an abundant bearer. 

 The fruit is very large, round, often coxcomb shaped, es- 

 pecially the first berries, and of a bright scarlet ; flesh pale 

 scarlet, not very firm ; flavor good, but not so rich as the 

 previous named ones; its size and productiveness is, per- 

 haps, its greatest recommendation ; yet it makes a fine ap- 

 pearance, is easily grown, and being much better than some 

 kinds, we esteem it a desirable variety. We have grown it, 

 measuring over six inches in circumference, and weighing 

 upwards of half an ounce. The other fine scarlets are the 



