STRAWBERRIES. 491 



Fruit large, conical, shorter and more obtuse than 

 the Black Hautbois ; the colour is dark, but not so 

 deep as in that. Seeds slightly embedded. Flesh solid, 

 greenish, and high-flavoured. A very abundant bearer ; 

 and it usually produces a partial second crop, blossom- 

 ing in August and September, and the fruit ripening in 

 October : the autumnal berries are much larger than 

 the summer ones, and nevertheless high-flavoured. 

 This is by far the best of the Hautbois Strawberries ; 

 the flowers the largest of the class yet known, with 

 numerous stamens. 



CLASS VII. Scarlet Strawberries. 



The type of this class is the Fragaria Virginiana of 

 botanists. The character is to have the leaves nearly 

 smooth, dark green, of thin texture, and with sharp- 

 pointed serratures ; their fruit, mostly of small size and 

 bright colour, with the seeds more or less deeply em- 

 bedded, with ridged intervals j the flavour acid, with 

 slight perfume. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 147. 



36. AMERICAN SCARLET. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. 

 p. 160. 



Black American. Ib. 



Fruit large, conical, and pointed, with a neck, of a 

 deep rich shining blood red, rough. Seeds numerous, 

 brownish, not deeply embedded, with sharp intervals. 

 Flesh dark scarlet, firm, with a core ; flavour rich and 

 agreeable. 



37. AUSTRIAN SCARLET. 



Cluster Scarlet. Globe Scarlet. 



Duke of Kent's Scarlet.* Nova Scotia Scarlet. 



* In the Hort. Trans, this is called the Duke of Kent's Straw- 

 berri/j and the Austrian Scarlet one of its synonyms : this I 

 have not adopted, for this simple reason, it was introduced 

 into this country from Germany in 1798, the Duke of Kent's 



