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juicy, sweet, rich, and exquisite. Leaf-stalks hairy; leaflets 

 roundish oval, obtusely serrate. A good bearer in England 

 and hardier there than the British Queen. Medinm in ripen- 

 ing. 



ELIZA (Rivers). An excellent strawberry, and a tolerably good 

 bearer. Leaves large, deep green, deeply serrate. Fruit very 

 large, light colored. Described in foreign catalogues as orange. 

 Here it is light crimson. The flesh is somewhat soft, but of 

 exquisite flavor. It came into notice a few years since, when 

 the Rippowam was introduced. I can see no difference in the 

 two, having grown the Eliza several seasons. 



ELIZABETH. A pistillate seedling of Burr's Pine. 



ELLA. New. Said to be large, and fine and early. Little known. 



* ELTON (Knight). (Syn. Elton Seedling, Elton Pine.} Origi- 

 nated in England about 1827, and a very prominent variety 

 there and on the continent. So late as 1863, two hundred and 

 forty acres of this strawberry were cultivated in the environs 

 of Paris for the market of that city. Fruit very beautiful, 

 large oval, bright red ; seeds fine, numerous, brilliant yellow; 

 flesh blood red, acid, not sugary, but of good flavor. Fig. in 

 Pom. Mag. III. 135. 



ELTON IMPROVED (Ingram). Fruit large, conical or flattened, 

 bright shining red ; flesh red, juicy, sugary, melting, and per- 

 fumed. 



EMERITE (De Jonghe). New, 1869. Plant dwarf and strong; 

 foliage like La Constante, and fruit like Bijou, but larger, and 

 elongated conical, bright cherry red ; seeds on the surface ; 

 flesh firm, flesh-colored, juicy, and delicate. 



EMILY (Huntsman). American. Originated in Flushing, New 

 York. Little known, but said to be very large, and of excellent 

 flavor. Pistillate. 



EMILY (Myatt). Fruit large, flattened conical, pale rose ; seeds 

 brown, prominent; flesh creamy white, juicy, sweet, and per- 

 fumed. A very distinct strawberry. Said to be hardy and pro- 

 ductive. 



EMMA (De Jonghe). Fruit large, obtusely conical, bright shin- 

 ing red ; seeds few, sunken ; flesh rosy white, juicy, sweet, and 

 perfumed. Hardy, productive, and forces well. The above is 

 the description of the Emma ; but a spurious and wretchedly 

 poor berry, which I have fruited, has been sold as the Emma in 

 this country. Fig. in Tilton's Jour. Hort. VII. 156. 



EMPRESS EUGENIE. (Knevett). Raised in 1854. Plant very vig- 

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