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THE PROLIFIC HAUTBOIS STRAWBERRY, 



Prolific or Conical Hautbois. Hort. Soc. Trans, vol. vi. 



p. 213. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 60. no. 82. 

 Double-bearing . . 



Hermaphrodite .... j> of the Gardens. 

 Spring Grove .... 



It is a common observation, that good Hautbois 

 Strawberries are nearly lost. This position] is 

 not correct. The Hautbois, which has male 

 blossoms on one plant, and female on another, is 

 frequently found in Gardens ; and as the sterile 

 plants of it are more vigorous than the fertile ones, 

 the unproductive runners become in time more 

 numerous, and gain the ascendency, and then the 

 whole are considered as being deteriorated. 



This variety having perfect stamens in all its 

 flowers, is consequently not liable to the inconve- 

 nience above mentioned, and it is very productive of 

 fruit. It frequently, in good seasons, yields a second 

 crop in autumn, the berries of which are much 

 larger than those of its regular produce, but they 

 are not very numerous. It is the best Hautbois 

 we possess, and was described in the paper in the 

 Transactions of the Horticultural Society above 



