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the seeds are slightly embedded, with flat hitcrvals ; the flesh 

 is of a pale vermilion hue, white at the centre, solid and well 

 flavoured. It is a good bearer, and ripens early. 



KNIGHT'S LARGE SCARLET. Hurt, tkaas. Liad. 



Hairy leaved Scarlet, ^ 



Great American Scai-lci, \ of English collections. 



Large Scarlet, ) 



This fruit is about the medium size, roundish or slightly 

 conical in its form, and of a light vermilion colour ; the seeds 

 are deeply embedded, with ridged intervals ; the flesh is 

 nearly white, soft, and of a pleasant flavour. 



LEWISHAM SCARLET. Hort. trans. Lixd. 

 Scarlet Cluster. lb. 



This fruit is of small size, roundish, with a short neck, 

 slightly hairy, of an uniform dark shining purplish red and 

 grows in clusters ; the seeds are embedded, but not deeply so, 

 and with flat intervals ; the flesh is scarlet, firm, and solid ; 

 the flavour very moderate. 



METHVEN scarlet. Pr cat. Hort. trans. Lind. 

 Methven Scarlet. Southampton Scarlet. 



Lindley and others thus describe this variety. The fruit 

 very large, cordate, compressed, inclining to cockscomb shape 

 in the earliest fruit, the late berries conical : the colour dark 

 scarlet ; the seeds pale yellow, not deeply embedded, regularly 

 and closely set widi ridged intervals ; the flesh of a scarlet hue, 

 very woolly, and tasteless, with a large hollow in the centre. 



OBLONG scarlet. Hort. trans. Lind. 

 p7id'fEi^'s1a;ietf"' *"*'' \ of English catalogues, &c. 



This fruit is of a rather large size, oblong, with a long 

 neck, which part being without seeds, has a peculiar glossy 

 or shining appearance, of a bright light scarlet colour ; the 

 the seeds are few, deeply embedded, between ridged intervals ; 



