STRAWBERRIES. 303 



26. ROSEBERRY. Barnet. Pom. Mag. Lindley. 



Aberdeen Seedling, Prolific Pine, Ease Strawberry, Scotch 



Scarlet. 



An abundant bearer ; the fruit is large, conical, pointed, 

 dark red, hairy, with a very short neck. The early fruit is 

 sometimes cockscomb-shaped ; seeds yellow, deeply imbed- 

 ded with ridged intervals; flesh firm, pale scarlet, with a 

 core ; flavor not rich, but agreeable, and much admired 

 by many. 



The whole list of strawberries which I have just de- 

 scribed, (with the exception of the Black Prince, the Wil- 

 mot's Superb, the Mulberry and the Wood, the Bush Alpine 

 and Methven Castle,') are but the select list which is partic- 

 ularly recommended in the Pom. Mag. for a small garden. 



Mr. Lindley has since particularly recommended the 

 same list for a small garden, with the exception of the 

 Bromley Hill, and the addition of the Black Prince, and 

 Wilmot's Superb. I have added the Mulberry on good 

 authority here ; also I have added the two varieties of 

 Wood strawberries, and the two varieties of Bush Alpine. 



Mr. Lindley has described sixty-two varieties. Mr. Bar- 

 net has recommended for a select list the same, generally, 

 as the Pomological Magazine and Mr. Lindley. 



In 1822, the London Horticultural Society, by their cir- 

 culars, congregated from all quarters a vast collection of 

 strawberries at Chiswick. The whole were examined by 

 Mr. Barnet; there were two hundred distinct names or 

 synonymes, and fifty-four varieties ; his account' of them 

 occupies eighty pages quarto. See Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. 

 p. 145. 



Let us enumerate the names of the strawberries which 

 Mr. Lindley has described, and which are not recom- 

 mended either by him, or in the Pom. Mag., for a small 

 garden. Some of them may yet, perhaps, prove fine in 

 our climate, as is the case with the Mulberry straw- 

 berry and Methven, the Red Wood, the Bath Scarlet, and 

 Bishop's ; and all are evidently thought worthy in a large 

 collection. 



In this list I omit the numerous synonymes generally. 



American Scarlet. Autumn Scarlet. Bath Scarlet. 

 Bishop's Seedling Scarlet. Blood Pine. Bostock, or Wel- 

 lington. Bullock's Blood. Carmine Scarlet. Charlotte. 



