SWEET CONE STRAWBERRY. 



Sweet Cone {Strawberry. Hort. Soc. Trans, vol. vi. p. 186. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. of Fruits, p. 56. 



This Strawberry was raised by Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq., in his garden at Downton Castle, in 

 Herefordshire, in the year 1817, from a seed of the 

 Old Pine or Carolina, impregnated by the pollen of 

 the Old Black, thus combining the qualities of the 

 two best-flavoured strawberries at that time existing" 

 in our gardens. Its greater affinity is to its male 

 parent, and it has consequently been placed, in the 

 paper above quoted from the Transactions of the 

 Horticultural Society, in the class of Black Straw- 

 berries. It is a moderate bearer, but produces fruit 

 more abundantly in a shaded and moist situation 

 than when exposed to much sun. It is hardier than 

 the Old Black Strawberry. The plants grow bushy, 

 producing few runners. The deficiency is, however, 

 frequently supplied by the first scapes forming 

 young plants, which when put into the ground emit 

 roots. 



Leaves yellowish green; foot-stalks erect and 

 slightly hairy ; leaflets small, oval, coarsely serrated, 

 convex, their upper surface very slightly hairy. 



