28$ 6F FRtnrs. SECT, xvir. 



as pears. There is a variety, as the apple, the pear* 

 shaped, c. See lists of trees, 1, 2, Sect. 19. 



STRAWBERRY : Of this fine flavoured fruit, beau- 

 tiful and fragrant, we have the following sorts : Red, 

 white, and green wood; red and white Alpine: scar* 

 let ; Carolina ; hautboy ; red and green pine-apple ; 

 Chili, of sorts ; with some seminal varieties, as se* 

 veral of the hautboy, and one in particular of the 

 Carolina, called the pink fashed strawberry with one 

 leaf, a variety of the wood and prolific* 



Gather strawberries regularly as they ripen, with 

 a bit of their stalk, and never lay many together to 

 press upon one another. The fresher they are, the 

 tiner eating ; for this fruit, as the raspberry, is quite 

 naught when stale. See pages 38, 54, 58, 80, 1 16, 

 175. 



WALNUT, there are several sorts of, as early and 

 late, small, and large, thick and thin shelled, &c* 

 Two only need be named, the early oval thin shelled) 

 and the common round, or royal walnut. All the 

 others seem to be only seminal variations from the 

 last, which is justly reckoned the best fruit Pro- 

 cure trees from seven to ten years old, well taken 

 up with entire roots, as they seldom bear till about 

 twenty years of age. See pages 79, 108. 



