THE STRAWBERRY, 666 
Strawberry Blossoms. 
Perfect blossom. Staminate blossom. Pistillate blossom. 
Besides these, there is really a third class, quite distinct, tha 
blossoms of which are regularly hermaphrodite, or perfect, in 
themselves, and which always bear excellent crops—though not 
perhaps so large as some of the most prolific of the pistillates do 
when fertilized. To this belong the Common English Wood 
Strawberries and the Alpines. Hence, these old inhabitants 
of the gardens have, from their uniform productiveness, lon 
been favourites with many who have not understood the cha. 
racter and habits of the larger staminate and pistillate varieties, 
No. 1 as above shows the blossom of this class of strawberries. 
Variztizs.—The verieties of this fruit are very numerous, 
indeed quite unnecessarily so for all useful purposes. They 
have chiefly been originated abroad within the last thirty years. 
The different species from which the varieties have been raised, 
have given a character to certain classes’ of Strawberries, 
pretty distinctly marked. Thus, from our own Wild Straw- 
berry, or Virginia Scarlet, as it is called abroad, have originated 
the Scarlet Strawberries; from the Pine or Surinam Straw- 
berry has been raised the class called Pines. From the 
common Wood Strawberry of Europe, another class, com- 
prising the Wools and Alpines. Besides, there are the Haut- 
bois, from a sort, a native of Bohemia, the Chili Strawberries, 
from South America, the Green Strawberries, and the Black 
Strawberries. ' 
Of these the Pines and the Scarlets are the largest and highest 
flavoured. The Wood and Alpine Strawberries are valuable 
for bearing a long time, and parting freely from the hull or stalk, 
in picking. 
CLASS I. 
Scarlet anil Pine Strawberries comprising such Varieties as ore 
“most generally esteemed. 
Boston Pine. 
Raised by C. M. Hovey, Boston, Mass. This fine early straw- 
berry, to have it in perfection, requires rich, deep soil, and to ba 
grown in hills or bunches eighteen or twenty inches apart each 
