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fruit middle-sized, pale greenish white, tinged with dull 

 purple; the seeds slightly imbedded; the flavor musky. 

 Harriet, in Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. Supposed to be so named 

 on account of their bearing their fruit high Hautbois y or 

 High Wood. 



19. LARGE FLAT HAUTBOIS. Barnet. Pom. Mag. Lind. 

 Bath Hautbois, Formosa Hautbois, Sawder's Hautbois, Sailer's 



Hautbois, Weymouth Hautbois, White Hautbois. 

 The fruit is large, round, depressed, light red ; the seeds 

 are imbedded ; the flesh is greenish, juicy, delicate, with- 

 out a core. 

 SO. PROLIFIC, or CONICAL HAUTBOIS. Barnet. Pom. 



Mag. Lindley. 

 Double Bearing, Dwarf, Hermaphrodite, Hudson's Bay, Re- 



genfs, Sacombe, Sir Joseph Banks's, Spring Grove. 

 The fruit is large, conical ; of a dark purple color ; flesh 

 solid, greenish, and high-flavored ; an abundant bearer, 

 and by far the best of the Hautbois strawberries. The 

 flowers are the largest of the class ; and it usually pro- 

 duces two crops. 



CLASS VII. SCARLET STRAWBERRIES. 



The Fragaria Virginiana of botanists is the type of 

 this class. The leaves are nearly smooth, thin, dark green, 

 with sharp-pointed serratures ; the fruit mostly small, of a 

 bright scarlet color ; the seeds more or less deeply imbed- 

 ded, with ridged intervals; the flavor acid, with a slight 

 perfume. Barnet, in Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. 

 21. BLACK ROSEBERRY. Pom. Mag. Barnet. Lindley. 



The fruit is of good size, obtusely conical, deep purplish 

 red, and shining ; the seeds are slightly imbedded ; flesh 

 dark red near the outside, solid, buttery, and juicy, and of 

 excellent flavor. 



3. GROVE END SCARLET. Barnet. Pom. Mag. 

 Atkinson's Scarlet, fTilmot's Early Scarlet. 



A first-rate strawberry, and an abundant bearer. The 

 fruit is of considerable size, depressed, spherical, of a 

 bright vermilion color ; seeds slightly imbedded, with flat 

 intervals; flesh pale scarlet, firm, with a core; flavor 

 agreeable, and slightly acid. 

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