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STRAWBERRIES. 



with a large core, pale scarlet, and very coarse, without any 

 particular flavour ; the seeds are very prominent and of a dark 

 shining red hue. 



BLACK PRINCE. Lond. iiort. trans. Lind. 

 Wilmofs Blade Imperial. 

 This fruit is of a very dark purplish hue, hairy, and of me- 

 dium size; its form depressed, spherical, with a furrow at the 

 apex ; the seeds slightly embedded ; the skin highly polished ; 

 the flesh solid, firm, of a rich dull scarlet with a small core ; 

 the juice dark and highly flavoured. 



GIBBS' SEEDLING BLACK. Lond. hort. trans. Lind. 



The fruit of this variety is small, conical, and hairy, with a 

 neck ; and of a dark purplish red colour ; the flesh scarlet, 

 firm and very high flavoured. 



OLD BLACK. Lond. hort. trans. Lind. 



Black Pine. Turkey Pine. Mulberry. Black Canterbury. 



This fruit is of a medium size, conical form, elongated, and 

 pointed, with a neck, hairy, and very dark purplish red ; the 

 flesh is scarlet and firm, with a buttery core, very rich and 

 high flavoured. 



PITMASTON BLACK. Pr. cat. Lond. hort. trans. Lind. 

 Late Pitmaston Black. 

 This fruit is of medium size, ovate, with a neck, slightly 

 hairy, and of a very dark purplish red hue ; the flesh scarlet, 

 solid and very firm, buttery and of a rich flavour ; seeds are 

 slightly embedded. 



EARLY SCARLET. Pr. cat. 



Morrisania or } rn'-jri,! rxi-ii-* ' 



V J S Jfi of Prince s Catalogues for the last sixty years. 



Morrisania scarlet. Lond. Hort. Trans. Lind. 



Fragaria virginiana. Lin. Pursh. For. Nut. and other botanists. 



This is the type or original species of the class termed 

 " Scarlet strawberries." The plants in the garden of the 



