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they should be planted in the proportion of ten fruit bearing, 

 or female plants, to one barren, or male plant ; and beds 

 thus formed, will produce so abundantly as amply to com- 

 pensate for the labour bestowed. If preferred, the plants 

 can be carefully marked when in fruit, and be transplanted 

 afterwards. 



5. Hudson's Bay. An excellent variety, with fine fla- 

 voured scarlet fruit. Whether it came originally from 

 the Bay whose name it bears, seems somewhat a matter of 

 doubt. 



6. Red Chili. This is a conical shaped fruit, with a neck 

 between it and the hull, from which it is consequently de- 

 tached with ease. It is exceedingly productive, and is raised 

 in great quantities for the market of New-York ; it is in- 

 ferior, however, in flavour to the Roseberry, Hautbois, Li- 

 ma, and many others, 



7. Blush, or Greenish Chili. This is called, in England, 

 the White Chili, and was imported by me from there under 

 that name it is also frequently there called the Green 

 Pine Apple. It produces fruit more flat shaped than any 

 other I have seen, which is always of a greenish and imma- 

 ture appearance on one side, even when perfectly ripe, and 

 of a light red on the other. It possesses a high musky fla- 

 vour, the taste being somewhat peculiar, and by some, at 

 first, considered disagreeable ; it ripens late, produces well, 

 and quickly covers a large space of ground with its numer- 

 ous runners. 



8 Bourbon Blush. A pale red fruit, less productive than 

 many others, but of fine flavour. 



9. Pine Ap.file, or Carolina. This is another native of 

 our country, and is the parent of nineteen known varieties, 

 among which are Keen's Imperial, Keen's Large Seedling, 

 and many others of the largest size. It is distinguished by 

 its large and vigorous foliage, and fine flavoured fruit, but is 

 subject, like No. 4, to be overrun with male plants ; but, by 

 pursuing the same course as prescribed for that, this may be 

 successfully surmounted. 



10. Caroline.-*- This is a seedling of No. 6, of good size, 

 but less productive. 



11. Red Alfiine^ Monthly, or Everbearing.-"-!*, is no un- 

 common thing to gather fruit of this kind when the autumn 

 is mild, in the open air, at Christmas. In size and flavour 

 it is similar to No. 2, and produces fruit throughout the 

 season. 



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