SCARLET STRAWBERRIES. 527 



5. GROVE END SCARLET. Thomp. 

 Atkinson Scarlet. 



A very handsome English Strawberry, but not esteemed here 

 so much as the Large Early Scarlet. Leaves very widely 

 serrated. Fruit of medium size, very bright vermillion scarlet, 

 globular and flattened. Seeds slightly imbedded. Flesh of a 

 pleasant, mild flavour. Ripens pretty early. 



6. HUDSON'S BAY. Thomp. 



Hudson. I American Scarlet, (of some .) 



Late Scarlet. | York River Scarlet. etc. 



The Hudson Strawberry is perhaps more celebrated than 

 any other for the markets of Philadelphia and New- York. Its 

 great firmness enables it to bear carriage well, and its deep 

 acid flavour, and the late season at which it ripens, have made 

 it the most popular sort for preserving. 



Fruit pretty large, ovate (with a neck), of a rich dark shining 

 red. Seeds deeply imbedded. Flesh very firm, of a high, but 

 brisk acid flavour. It should therefore be allowed to hang late 

 Ripens late, after most of the scarlets are gone. 



7. LARGE EARLY SCARLET. Pom. Man. 



The finest of all very early Strawberries, a regular, very 

 abundant, and excellent bearer and indispensable in every gar- 

 den. The flowers are always perfect. It is an American va- 

 riety, the leaves rather broad, and the flowers larger than the 

 most of its class. It is so superiour to the Old Scarlet as to 

 entirely supersede it wherever known. 



Fruit pretty large, roundish ovate, regularly formed, hand- 

 some light scarlet, seeds deeply imbedded. Flesh tender, of a 

 rich, excellent flavour. Ripens before all the other sorts, but 

 Duke of Kent's Scarlet. 



8. METHVEN'S SCARLET. Thomp. 



Methven Castle. 

 Southampton Scarlet. 

 Warren's Seedling. 



An immense fruit, but hollow and of rather coarse flavoui. 

 The leaves are very broad. Fruit of the largest size, roundish 

 or cockscomb shaped, rather dull scarlet. Flesh soft, and of in- 

 different flavour. Seeds not deeply imbedded. Ripens at me. 

 dium season. 



