626 THE STRAWBERRY. 



Class I. Scarlet Strawberries. 



[Flowers small. Leaves rather long, of thin texture, and rather light 

 colour, with sharp serratures ; the fruit of a bright colour, and a sub-acid 

 flavour : the seed sunk in ridged intervals. Fruit medium or large, acid 

 or sub-acid.] 



1. BISHOP'S ORANGE. 



Bishop's New. 

 Orange Hudson Bay : 



A handsome and very highly flavoured variety, which haa 

 proved of the finest quality, in the Middle States, when planted 

 in rich, deep, sandy soils. The fruit is a beautiful light scarlet, 

 somewhat approaching orange of large size, very regularly 

 shaped, conical, borne in large clusters lying on the surface. 

 Flesh firm. Flavour very high. Leaves hairy. Ripens rather 

 late, and bears well. 



. 2. BLACK ROSEBERRY. Thomp. 



A good, nearly round Strawberry, of rather large size, and 

 a fine, dark, purplish-red colour. Flesh firm, with an excel- 

 lent, rather peculiar flavour. Only a moderate bearer. 



3. DUNDEE. 



A capital Scotch variety, extensively cultivated here, and 

 esteemed for its great productiveness and hardiness. Leaves 

 very long, foot-stalks and fruit also, supported on long stalks 

 in large clusters. Fruit pretty large, roundish oval, regularly 

 formed, and of a fine light scarlet. Flesh firm, and of a rich 

 acid flavour. It ripens pretty late at the same season as the 

 Hudson Bay. 



4. DUKE OF KENT'S SCARLET. Thomp. 



Austrian Scarlet, Lind. Globe Scarlet. 



Nova Scotia Scarlet. Early Prolific Scarlet, &c. 



We have long cultivated this, which is the earliest of all 

 Strawberries. The fruit is rather small, and the sort is alto- 

 gether inferior to the large Early Scarlet which ripens a week 

 later. Still, it is valuable where the earliest fruit is desired. 

 Fruit small, varying from roundish, to long conical ; bright 

 scarlet : flavour sharp and good. Ripens here in the middle 

 or last of May. 



