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THE OLD PINE, OR CAROLINA STAWBERRY. 



Old Pine, or Carolina. Hort. Soc. Trans, vol. vi. p. 195. 

 Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 57. 



No fewer than twenty-one synonymes are given 

 to this variety in the catalogue of the fruits culti- 

 vated in the Garden of the Horticultural Society; 

 but some of them are easily referable to its proper 

 name, and others either originated in private gar- 

 dens, where its history was unknown, or were ap- 

 plied by cultivators desirous of assuming credit for 

 the possession of it as a novelty. The publication 

 referred to having nearly dispelled this confusion 

 of nomenclature, it is not thought worth while to 

 perpetuate the recollection of it by repeating the 

 synonymes here. 



The drawing was made in the Garden of the 

 Horticultural Society. 



It is very generally cultivated, and is found in 

 many gardens of old standing ; its origin is un- 

 known, but is certainly British, for it is not found 

 in the gardens of France, and is not the Fraisier 

 Ananas of the writers of that country, as has been 

 sometimes supposed. 



Its merit and value are universally admitted ; and 

 amidst the diversity of opinions which must exist 

 as to which is the best Strawberry known, there 



