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THE ELTON SEEDLING STRAWBERRY. 



Among the many hundreds of Seedling Straw- 

 berries which have been raised by the indefatigable 

 perseverance of Mr. Knight, the Downton has been 

 the only one which has appeared likely to reward 

 his labour, by its becoming a variety in general 

 cultivation and esteem. But it has been lately dis- 

 covered, that another, which was formerly given 

 away by Mr. Knight, under the name of No. 1, is 

 likely to rival it, and to become at least as exten- 

 sively useful. 



This, the subject of the present Plate, had been 

 overlooked, both in the Garden of its discoverer and 

 elsewhere, till attention was called, in the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society, to its lateness and 

 beautiful appearance. More care has since been 

 taken in its cultivation, and it has proved to be a 

 variety of the very first class in point of excellence, 

 of which it is not too much to say, that it stands 

 upon a level with the celebrated Keen's Seedling. 

 It is a healthy, hardy sort; it bears most pro- 

 fusely ; the fruit is very large and handsome ; it 

 ripens so late as to furnish a supply of Pine Straw- 

 berries, to which class it belongs, long after all the 

 other Pine-like sorts are over ; and finally it pos- 

 sesses the great merit of packing well, and of being 

 particularly fit for preserving, a quality of which very 

 few Strawberries can be said to be possessed. All the 



