PDIB STRAWBERRIES. 



24. Ross' PHOENIX. 



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This we consider one of the finest of all the Pine Strawber- 

 ries for this climate. It has all the good qualities of the Keen's 

 Seedling, with the great additional ones of being perfectly hardy 

 and always bearing most abundant crops. In short we have 

 seen this sort succeed with the commonest culture, and produce 

 fine crops of truly splendid fruit in gardens where the finest 

 English Pines generally failed with much greater care. It is 

 a native seedling, raised in 1837, by Mr. Alexander Ross, of 

 Hudson, N. Y., from the Keen's Seedling, which it most resem- 

 bles, but the leaves are broader, very dark green, with very 

 coarse serratures, and lie close to the ground. The clusters of 

 fruit are very large. 



Fruit very large, generally cockscomb-shaped, or compressed 

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