STRAWBERRIES. 315 



scarlet. Seeds deeply embedded, with rigid intervals. Flesh 

 solid, firm, pale scarlet, with a moderate flavour. 



40. Black Roseberry. Pom, J\Iag-. 20. 



Fruit of good size, bluntly conical, deep purplish red, and 

 shining. Seeds slightly embedded, with flattened intervals. 

 Flesh dark red next the outside, solid, buttery, and juicy, 

 with a very excellent flavour, differing much from other 

 strawberries. 



41. Carmine Scarlet. Hort. Trans^ Yol. vi. p. 158. 

 Carmine Roseberry. lb. 



Fruit large, bluntly conical, with a neck, of a brilliant, 

 ishining, varnished red. Seeds slightly embedded, with sharp 

 ridged intervals. Flesh pale scarlet, tinted with red, firm, 

 and very high-flavoured. 



42. Charlotte. Hort. Trans. Yol. vi. p. 155, 

 Princess Charlotte's Strawberry. lb. 



Fruit middle-sized, round, hairy, of a dark purplish red. 

 Flesh scarlet, firm, and high-flavoured. 

 A very moderate bearer, but ripens eafly. 



43. Clustered Scarlet. Hort. Trans. VoL vi. p. 

 164. 



Clustered Wood Pine. lb. 



Fruit of a moderate size, obtusely conical, or nearly 

 round, very dark purplish red. Seeds of the same colour as 

 the fruit, unequally embedded between the intervals, which 

 are sometimes flat and at other times bluntly ridged. Flesh 

 scarlet, firm, and well-flavoured. 



44. Cockscomb Scarlet. Hort, Trans. Vol. vi. p. 

 180. 



Fruit large, compressed, with a furrow along the apex, 

 which appears as a simple indenture when the berry does 

 not put on a cockscomb shape ; the early berries are com- 

 pletely cockscombed, so much so as to enclose the calyx 

 within the fruit by surrounding the end of the peduncle ; co- 

 lour bright scarlet. Seeds pale, slightly embedded between 

 flat intervals. Flesh pale scarlet, solid, with a large core, 

 well-flavoured, but without acid. 



45. Garnstone Scarlet. Hort. Trans. Yol. vi. p. 

 171. 



Fruit middle-sized, round, hairy, with a short neck, of a 

 rich glossy scarlet. Seeds red, deeply embedded, with round 

 intervals. Flesh scarlet, firm, with a sharp agreeable fla- 

 vour. 



