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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Docteur Veillard Strawberry. A medium-sized plant, with 



light foliage ; leaf-stalks 

 slightly hairy ; leaflets 

 large, oval, broad, much 

 toothed ; flower-stems 

 stout, very branching, 

 trailing ; flowers medium- 

 sized. Fruit fairly large, 

 rounded or oblong, not 

 very abundant ; flesh red, 

 perfumed, but pasty. A 

 half-early variety. 



Due de Malakoff 

 Strawberry. Plant ex- 

 ceedingly vigorous, with 

 large broad leaves of a 

 deep, almost blackish 

 green ; leaflets oval, 

 rounded, with very large 

 short teeth ; leaf-stalk, 

 flower-stems, and runners 

 very hairy, and often 

 tinged with red ; flowers 

 large, pure white ; flower- 

 stems stout but inclined 



to be short ; fruit large and short, and of a peculiar brown tint 



when ripe ; flesh yellow, something like the colour of the flesh 



of an apricot, juicy, melting, and with somewhat of the flavour 



of the Chili Strawberry. This is a very 



productive and very hardy variety, and 



ripens mid-season. 



Edouard Lefort Strawberry. A 



new and very distinct variety, shaped 



liked the Hautbois Strawberry a shape 



rarely seen in hybrid Strawberries. 



Plant vigorous, leaves numerous, up- 

 right ; leaflets large, long, dark green, 



borne on hairy stalks ; flower-stems tall 



and stout ; fruit round at the end and 



tapering at the base, where it forms a 



neck bare of seeds for one-third the 



length of the fruit. The fruit is scarlet 



changing to dark blood-red. The flesh 



is red all through, and in this re- 

 spect it differs from the Two-coloured 



Strawberry and the Deutsche Kronprinzessin, the only two 



Docteur Veillard Strawberry. 



Due de Malakoff Strawberry 

 (natural size). 



