1008 the strawberry. 



Yellow Chili. 



Fruit very lai'ge, irregular in form, yellow, with a brown cheek, 

 Seeds slightly embedded. Flesh very firm, rather rich. 



GREEN STRAWBERRIES. 



Little valued or cultivated, being more curious than good. They 

 resemble, in general appearance, the Wood Strawberries. Leaves light 

 green, much plaited. Flesh solid. There are sevei'al sorts grown by 

 the French, but the following is the only one of any value, and it is a 

 shy beai-er. 



Green Strawberry. 



Green Pine. Fraisier Vert. Green Alpine. 



Green Wood. Powdered Pine. 



Fruit small, roundish or depressed, whitish gi-een, and at maturity 

 tinged with reddish brown on the sunny side. Flesh solid, greenish, 

 very juicy, with a pecxiliar rich, pineapple flavor. Ripens late. 



SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 



The Strawben*y is so variable in soils and climates that it is vei-y 

 difficult to select such as will alwtvys give satisfaction. We present the 

 following as a list embracing varieties that have proved satisfactory 

 with us : — 



Agriculturist, Charles Downing, Downer's Prolific, French, Green 

 Prolific, Hovey's Seedling, Jucunda, Longworth's Prolific, Napoleon III., 

 Royal Hautbois, Triomphe de Gaud, Wilson's Albany. 



Hey to French standard names of Fruit. — To meet the wants of 

 some of our farming friends in vaiious jiarts of the country Avho are 

 zealous collectors of fruit, but at the same time are more familiar with 

 plough-handles than with the sound of Monsieur Crajxnurs polite ver- 

 nacular, we have prepai-ed the following little key to the pronunciation 

 of such Fi'ench names as are necessarily retained among the standard 

 varieties. 



So long as these sorts must retain their foreign names, it i? very 

 desirable that they should be con-ectly pronounced. To give to these 

 French terms what appears to merely English readers the proper sound 

 is often as far as possible from the true pronunciation. A skilful Hiber- 

 nian gardener puzzled his employer, a friend of ours, during the whole 

 m inth of September with some pears that he persisted in calling the 

 " Lucy Bony," until, after a careful comparison of notes, the latter 

 found he meant the J^ouise Honne. 



We have therefore, in the following, eschewed all letters with signs, 

 and given, as nearly as types alone will permit us, the exact pronuB- 

 elation of the French names. 



