302 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



4. METHVEN SCARLET. 



Very large, conical, sometimes cordate, or cockscomb- 

 formed ; dark scarlet ; flesh scarlet, woolly, at times hol- 

 low ; good, and very productive, but not first rate ; once 

 much cultivated ; now being supplanted by improved kinds. 

 Now outcast, also, by Mr. Thompson. 

 31. MELON. 



Of good size ; form roundish ; of excellent flavor ; a 

 good bearer. The blossoms are both male and female. 

 Other kinds, as Hovey's Seedling, &c., having few or no 

 male blossoms, bear enormous crops only when in the 

 vicinity of the Melon, or Virginia, and similar kinds, 

 which possess both. 



45. COUL LATE SCARLET. Thompson. 

 Sir George Mackenzie's Late Scarlet. Ib. 



New, very large: form ovate; of fine flavor; a new 

 kind, described by Mr. Thompson, as an excellent late 

 sort, and good bearer. 



25. *OLD SCARLET. Pom. Mag. Lindley. Barnet. 

 Ecarlate de Firginie of the French, Scarlet, Early Scarlet, 

 Original Scarlet, Early Virginia Scarlet. 



A middle-sized, globular fruit, of a light scarlet color; 

 slightly hairy ; seeds deeply imbedded, with ridged inter- 

 vals ; flesh pale scarlet, firm, and high-flavored. A good 

 bearer, ripening early; valuable for preserving. Esteemed, 

 near Boston, as one of the most sure and profitable of 

 strawberries for an early crop. There are no male va- 

 rieties of this fruit. 



In 1822, the London Horticultural Society, by their cir- 

 culars, congregated from all quarters a vast collection of 

 strawberries at Chiswick. The whole were examined by 

 Mr. Barnet ; there were two hundred distinct names or 

 synonymes, and fifty-four varieties; his account of them oc- 

 cupies eighty pages quarto. See Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. 



The whole list of strawberries which are now described 

 includes several kinds which were unknown, either to 

 Messrs. Barnet or Lindley, or to the editors of the Porno- 

 logical Magazine at the time they wrote; it includes sev- 

 eral kinds, new, improved, and far more valuable and 

 splendid than were then known : some of which are of 

 American origin. 



