"8 Ci atalogue of Varietdes. 
very unproductive, with light green, unhealthy looking foliage, 
and bearing a few enormous crimson, misshapen, cockscombed 
berries, often ripe on one side, and green on the other. Flesh 
soft, hollow, very poor flavor. Fig. in Rev. Horticole, 186s,’ 
P- 375+ ‘ 
Docror THomrson (De Jonghe). New, 1869. Leaves deep 
green, without lustre; lobes horizontal, regularly incised; 
corolla small; fruit medium to large, conical, regular, -shining . 
cherry red; seeds abundant, slightly sunken; flesh pale cherry, 
juicy and brisk. 
Downer’s Protiric (Downer). Originated in Kentucky. Me- 
dium to large, roundish oval, light scarlet; seeds deeply im- 
bedded; flesh soft, acid, good flavor, and perfume of the wild 
strawberry. Early, hardy, and productive. Ihave had a bed 
bear a good crop of medium berries after three years’ neglect. 
Good for a near market. - 
* Downton (Knight). (Syn. Knight's Seedling, Knight's Straw- 
berry.) An old and forfnerly much esteemed English straw- 
berry. Originated about 1817, being a cross between the 
so-called Old Black strawberry, and a large Scarlet. Fruit 
large, ovate, often cockscombed, dark purple scarlet; flesh scar- 
let, firm, and very high flavored. Fig. in Pom. Mag. II. 52, 
and Lond. Hort. Soc. Trans. III. 396. 
Ducnesse DE Beaumont (Lorio). Large to very large; varia- 
ble, bright shining red; seeds superficial; flesh rosy, with red 
veins, juicy, sweet, and perfumed. Plant vigorous and produc- 
tive. Medium in ripening. 
Ducresse pz Bercuss. A white wood strawberry, said. to be 
large and productive. ; 
Ducnesse DE TREVISE. Syri. of Vicomtesse Hericart de Thury. 
Duc pe Brasant. Large, long conical, bright shining red, 
musky and agreeable. ; 
Duc pe Maraxorr (Gloede). One of the most satisfactory - 
French varieties that I have fruited for an amateur’s strawberry. 
Berries enormous, sometimes weighing one and one half: 
ounces; variable, cockscombed, dull red; seeds prominent; 
flesh very juicy, and with a sort of mulberry flavor. Vigorous, 
moderately productive, and as hardy as any foreignkind. Said 
to be a cross of a Chili and the British Queen. 
Du PoracEr IMPERIAL DE VERSAILLES. A French sub-variety 
of the Alpine class. 
Dupson House SCARLET. 
