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rafures ; fruit large, varying from almost nearly white to almost 

 purple ; flavour sweet and often perfumed. Fifteen sorts. 



4. The true Chili Strawberry. F. Chiloensis. This species has 

 not yet sported into varieties. Leaves very villous, hoary, with 

 small leaflets of thick texture and obtuse serrature ; fruit very 

 large and pale ; flesh insipid in the type or original species, but in 

 the new kinds which have been raised from it by cross impreg- 

 nation, such as Wilmot's superb and the Yellow Chili, it is better. 



5. The Hautbois (haut-bois, high-ivooded or high-stalked) Straio- 

 berries. F. elatior. Leaves tall, pale green, and rugose ; fruit 

 middle-sized, musky flavour. Five sorts. 



6. 2Vie Green Strawberries. F. collina. Leaves pale light-green, 

 and strongly plaited. Cultivated by the French, and sometimes 

 by us, under the name of green pine, or pine-apple (shaped) 

 strawberry. 



7. The Alpine mid Wood Strawberries. F. semperflorens, and 

 F. vesca, differing chiefly in the shape of their fruits, which are 

 usually conical in the former and more globose in the latter. 

 " There are red and white fruited varieties of each. The Alpines 

 produce fruit in the autumn, which the Wood strawberries do not. 

 We have of late received from France several varieties. It is to 

 these kinds that the attention of the French gardeners is almost 

 exclusively directed." 



Mr. Barnet has not described any of the kinds belonging 

 to the two last divisions ; but of the first five classes he has 

 described fifty-four sorts, with their synonyms, amounting to 

 two hundred and forty names ; and he adds, that with the two 

 classes unnoticed, and the varieties of other classes yet un- 

 described, which are either at present in the garden of the 

 Society or elsewhere, the list may be extended to near one 

 hundred kinds. 



It would be of little or no use to our readers to give the 

 names of all the sorts described ; but we shall give Mr. 

 Barnet's selection from them, as a guide to those who cul- 

 tivate (and who does not?) this excellent fruit. 



" Scarlets. — Old scarlet, Roseberry, Carmine scarlet, Grove 

 End, Duke of Kent's, Grimstone, American, Hudson's Bay, Cocks- 

 comb, and Wilmot's late scarlet. 



". Blacks. — Pitmaston and Downton. 



" Pines. — Bostock, Surinam, Old Pine, Keen's Seedling, and 

 Round White Carolina. 



" Chilis. — Superb. 



" Hautbois. — Prolific and Flat. 



" If to these twenty sorts were added plantations of Red Alpines 

 and White Alpines, the whole would form a more perfect collection 

 of strawberries than has probably ever existed together in any one 

 garden. It is to be observed, that flavour has not been the only 

 property attended to in the above selection ; certain kinds, though 

 deficient in that important point, have been included, because of 



