528 PINE STRAWBERRIES. 



[About Philadelphia, this sort was, a year or two ago, pretty 

 generally cultivated as the Keen's Seedling, a very different 

 fruit.] 



9. MELON, 



A very good Scotch variety of dwarfish habit, and quite pro- 

 ductive. Fruit of medium size, roundish, of very darkish co- 

 lour ; flavour rich and good. 



10. OLD SCARLET. Thomp, 



Original Scarlet. I Scarlet 



Virginia Scarlet. Early Scarlet 



This is the common wild strawberry of this country, and is 

 the type of the class. It is here quite supplanted by the Large 

 Early Scarlet. Fruit roundish-conical, bright scarlet, and 

 deeply imbedded ; flesh of good flavour. It ripens pretty early, 

 three or four days after the Large Early Scarlet. 



11. ROSEBERRY. 



Aberdeen. 

 Roseberry. 

 Scotch Scarlet. 



A very good Strawberry not so much liked here as the Dun- 

 dee, another Scotch variety. The fruit-stalks are short. It 

 ripens gradually in succession, with a very short neck, dark 

 red. Flesh firm, of tolerably good flavour. Ripens at a me- 

 dium season. 



Class II. Pine Strawberries.* 



[Flowers large, leaves rather broad, dark green with obtuse serratures ; 

 seeds prominent, on a smooth surface, fruit large, rich and sweet.] 



12. BLACK PRINCE. Thorp. 

 Black Imperial. 



The Black Prince which we imported a few years since from 

 England, proves a variety of rare merit for this climate. The 

 plants are very hardy, the fruit very handsome and large, al- 

 ways very dark polished red almost black, roundish, or ovate 



* We include in this class the small class of BLACK STRAWBERRIES of 

 the English authors, which we do not think need really be considered di- 

 linct from the Pines, to which they have so much affinity. 



