314 STRAWBERRIES. 



CLASS VII. Scarlet Strawberries. 



The type of this class is the Fragaria Virginiana of bo- 

 tanists. The character is to have the leaves nearly smooth, 

 dark green, of thin texture, and with sharp pointed serra- 

 tures ; their fruit, mostly of small size and bright colour, 

 with the seeds more or less deeply embedded, with ridged 

 intervals ; the flavour acid, with slight perfume. Hort. 

 Trans. Vol. vi. p. 147. 



36. AMERICAN SCARLET. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 160. 

 Black American. 76. 



Fruit large, conical, and pointed, with a neck, of a deep 

 rich shining blood red, rough. Seeds numerous, brownish, 

 not deeply embedded, with sharp intervals. Flesh dark 

 scarlet, firm, with a core ; flavour rich and agreeable. 



37. AUSTRIAN SCARLET. 



Cluster Scarlet. Globe Scarlet. 



Duke of Kent's Scarlet.* Nova Scotia Scarlet. 



Duke of York's Scarlet. Oatlands Scarlet. 



Early Prolific Scarlet. Prolific Scarlet. 



Fruit nearly globular, of a moderate or rather small size, 

 of a rich bright scarlet. Seeds deeply embedded, with sharply 

 ridged intervals. Flesh solid, pale scarlet ; flavour peculiar, 

 sharp, and pleasant. 



This Strawberry is the earliest of all the sorts, ripening at 

 least a week before the Old Scarlet, and a most abundant 

 bearer. Its runners are produced very early ; they are nu- 

 merous, small, and of a reddish colour. 



38. AUTUMN SCARLET. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 176. 

 Fruit about the size of the Old Scarlet, ovate, with a neck, 



of an uniform dark shining red. Seeds yellow, deeply em- 

 bedded, with rigid intervals. Flesh solid, firm, pale scarlet ; 

 the flavour good. 



39. BISHOP'S SEEDLING SCARLET. Hort. Trans. Vol. 

 vi. p. 172. 



Fruit of moderate size, round, with a neck, hairy, light 



* In the Hort. Trans, this is called the Duke of Kent's Strawberry, and the 

 Austrian Scarlet one of its synonyms : this I have not adopted, for this simple rea- 

 son, it was introduced into this country from Germany in!798. the Duke of Kent'3 

 from Nova Scotia in 1802. Its priority of introduction, therefore, from Germany, 

 ia thus established ; and its name as Austrian Scarlet was published in my Cata- 

 logue of 1815, ten years previously to this part of the Horticultural Transactions 

 making its appearance. 



