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Siraioherries — JSTew Varieties. 



Vol. XI. 



No. 72, A., produced from a seed of a 

 berry of Keens' seedling crossed with the 

 Red Alpine, and planted July 3rd, 1843; 

 fruited in 1845; flower large; sexual or- 

 ganization perfect; leaf large and drooping; 

 leaf stem smooth; fruit borne on high fruit 

 stalk, very large, round, deep crimson, and 

 fine flavour. I know of no large fruited 

 strawberry, with perfect anthers, that will 

 bear a full crop, except 72, A., and its off- 

 spring the Gushing; but unfortunately the 

 former is too tender for open culture. 



No. 72, B., from another seed of the same 

 berry, has not yet fruited; it has in its foli- 

 age a strong resemblance to the father, while 

 72, A., resembles the mother. 



No. 91, produced from a seed of a berry 

 of the White Bush Alpine, crossed with 

 Swainstone seedling, planted December 8th, 

 1843; fruited in 1846; flower small, with 

 perfect anthers; fruit medium, conical, pale 

 scarlet. It did not inherit the bush and 

 everbearing properties of the mother, nor 

 the fine fruit of the father. 



Nos. 119, A., and 119, B., were produced 

 by two seeds of a berry of the true South- 

 borough seedling crossed with the Conical 

 Hautbois. The loaf of both partook strongly 

 of the Hautbois character; and though the 

 flower appeared to have both organs per- 

 fectly developed, not a single fruit was 

 formed. They appeared to be mules. 



No. 123, A. — Adriana, so named after 

 one of my daughters — produced from a seed 

 of a large berry of Hovey's seedling, grown 

 in the garden of Joshua Longirtreth, Esq., 

 planted May 30th, 1844; fruited in 1846; 

 flower above medium, and without anthers; 

 fruit large, conical, bright scarlet ; seed in 

 deep indentations, with ridged intervals; 

 leaf medium; serratures obtuse; hairy leaf 

 stem. 



No. 123, D. — Caleb Cape, so named in 

 honour of the President of the Pennsylva- 

 nia Horticultural Society — produced from 

 another seed of the same berry, and planted 

 on the same day; fruited in 1846; flower 

 above medium, with perfect anthers; leaf 

 rather small, with serratures somewhat 

 acute, hairy leaf stem, fruit in clusters, 

 on a high fruit stalk, rather large, conical, 

 hairy, deep crimson, highly glazed, and of 

 beautiful appearance; seed placed in slight 

 depressions; flavour very fine and peculiar. 

 On first tasting the fruit, I was forcibly im- 

 pressed with this peculiarity of flavour: — 

 could it be fancy '! I tried another berry ; 

 still the same flavour was perceptible: on 

 the following day I tried it again, with the 

 same result. This peculiarity of flavour 

 bears a faint but very perceptible resem- 

 blance to that of the Muscat grape of Alex- 



andria. Another valuable quality possessed 

 by this kind is, that when ripe, it remains 

 long on the plant in a state of perfection. 

 The fruit is solid, with red flesh. 



No. 136, produced from a seed of a berry 

 of Swainstone seedling crossed with the 

 Conical Hautbois, planted June 3rd, 1844. 

 This plant has not yet fruited. Some of my 

 horticultural friends enteitain the opinion 

 that the Hautbois strawberry will not amal- 

 gamate with any other kind. A glance at 

 No. 136, will satisfy them of the incorrect- 

 ness of this opinion; for tlic structure of the 

 leaf is essentially that of tiie Hautbois, from 

 which it differs only in not being pointed. 



No. 145, E , produced by a seed of a berry 

 of Buist's prize strawberry crossed with the 

 Old Pine, planted June &th, 1844. It fruited 

 in 1846; flower large, with perfect antliers; 

 fruit above mediuni, pyramidal, dull scarlet, 

 with chocolate coloured seed set on a smooth 

 surface, without indentations; flavour fine; 

 leaf rather large, with obtuse serratures, 

 and hairy leaf stem. 



No. 147, B. — MidJleton — so named after 

 Mr. Edwin Middleton, of Darby, one of our 

 most skilful fruit cultivators — produced from 

 a seed of a berry of Methven Scarlet, with- 

 out anthers, grown near Cox's Hybrid, Old 

 Pine, Downton, and Southborough seedling, 

 planted June 8th, 1844; fruited in 1846; 

 flower very large, with perfect anthers; 

 leaf medium, rather narrow, with obtuse 

 serratures, and hairy leaf stem ; fruit large, 

 roundish, crimson. 



No. 198, E. — Cushing, so named as a 

 compliment to J. P. Cushing, Esq., of Bos- 

 ton, to whom I am under a thousand obliga- 

 tions — produced from a seed of a berry of 

 No. 72, A., the anthers not having been ex- 

 tracted; planted May 31st, 1845; fruited in 

 1846, one year from ihe seed ; flower large, 

 with perfect anthers; leaf large and roundish, 

 like that of Keens' Seedling and Ross's 

 Phoenix; differing, however, from these two 

 varieties, in having a hairy leaf stem ; fruit 

 very large, round, some of the berries with 

 a short neck, light scarlet colour; seed in- 

 serted in slight depressions; fine flavour, and 

 very productive. This plant was exhibited 

 at one of the meetings of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society this summer, with 26 

 fine berries on it, several of them four and a 

 quarter inches in circumference. Not long 

 since, Mr. J^ongworth, of Cincinnati, offered 

 one hundred dollars for a strawberry with 

 perfect anthers that will bear a full crop of 

 fruit as large as Hovey's Seedling. Such a 

 strawberry is, I think, the Cushing. 



No. 201, D. — produced by a seed of a 

 berry of Long worth's Iowa, anthers not ex- 

 tracted, and grown among a hybrid — Meth- 



