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resembling the Wood strawberry. The leaves are light 

 green, and strongly plaited. Barnet, Vol. vi. Lond. Hort, 

 Trans. 



Lindley has described the GREEN STRAWBERRY, (Frai- 

 sier Vert,) Caucasian, Green Alpine, Green Wood, Pine- 

 Apple, but ascribes their defection to the multitude of 

 runners, and has no doubt but if these were restrained, 

 they would prove productive. 



CLASS VI. HAUTBOIS STRAWBERRIES. 



The leaves of this class are highly elevated, rough, and 

 of a thin texture ; the scapes or stems tall and strong ; the 

 fruit middle-sized, pale greenish white, tinged with dull 

 purple; the seeds slightly imbedded; the flavor musky. 

 Barnet, in Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. Supposed to be so named 

 on account of their bearing their fruit high Hautbois, or 

 High Wood. 



19. LARGE FLAT HAUTBOIS. Barnet. Pom. Mag. Lind. 

 Bath Hautbois, Formosa Hautbois, Sawder's Hautbois, Suiter's 



Hautbois, Weymouth Hautbois, JThite Hautbois. 

 The fruit is large, round, depressed, light red ; the seeds 

 are imbedded; the flesh is greenish, juicy, delicate, with- 

 out a core. 



20. PROLIFIC, or CONICAL HAUTBOIS. Barnet. Pom. 



Mag. Lindley. 

 Double Bearing, Dwarf, Hermaphrodite, Hudson's Bay, Rz- 



genfs, Sacombe, Sir Joseph Banks's, Spring Grove. 

 The fruit is large, conical ; of a dark purple color ; flesh 

 solid, greenish, and high-flavored ; an abundant bearer, 

 and by far the best of the Hautbois strawberries. The 

 flowers are the largest of the class ; and it usually pro- 

 duces two crops. 



CLASS VII. SCARLET STRAWBERRIES. 



The Fragaria Virginiana of botanists is the type of 

 this class. The leaves are nearly smooth, thin, dark green, 

 with sharp-pointed serratures ; the fruit mostly small, of a 

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