158 New Strawberries. 



Bijou. — A new variety. An excellent grower, of dwarf habit. Leaves 

 wedge-obovate ; flowers large and handsome ; berry between round and 

 conical, bright crimson, sweet, and veiy good. 



Exposition a Chalons. — The Exposition is a rather straggling grower, 

 with deeply serrate, dull-green leaves, and large, conical, tolerably good 

 fhiit, worth about as much for one's own eating as Triomphe de Gand. 



Frogmore Late Pine. — I do not know which to put first in point of 

 excellence, — the Frogmore or the Lucas. The first is unquestionably 

 one of the very finest foreign berries added to our list of late years. The 

 fruit is monstrous, conical, brilliant crimson, and is easily hulled ; the 

 flesh is white, perfumed, and extremely juicy and refreshing. The plants 

 are tolerably productive, and every amateur should have one row of this kind. 



La Delicieuse. — I fruited a strawberry this year which I bought by 

 this name ; but I am inclined to think it is not the true La Delicieuse, 

 although it is a very nice berry. Blossoms small, apparently pistillate, 

 different as possible in aspect from the flowers of the Frogmore or any 

 similar strawbeny. The berries are rather small, in clusters, deeply pitted, 

 very dark crimson, very sweet and delicious. The fruit is too small for 

 market, but most desirable for family use. The plants produce an infinity 

 of runners. 



LuciDA Perfecta. — This is the latest variety with which I am ac- 

 quainted, and would be an immense acquisition if it were not so unpro- 

 ductive \ but, as it is, it is hardly worth raising except as a curiosity. 

 Leaves roundish, dark shining green, the old leaves looking as if they 

 were varnished ; berries large, bright crimson, white towards the neck, 

 conical or flattened ; flesh white as snow, with abundance of sweet, high- 

 flavored juice. A few berries remained on the vines up to the 27th of 

 July. 



In raising a large number of seedlings from the Lucida Perfecta, two 

 things struck my attention veiy forcibly ; viz., the regularity with which the 

 seeds germinate, and the sti'ength of the resulting plants. I hope' some 

 one of them will exceed its parent in productiveness. 



Lucas. — M. De Jonghe is said to have selected La Constante as his 

 best seedling; but it seems to me that he must have come to this decision 

 before a seedling of La Constante, the Lucas, fully displayed its merits. 



