THE AMERICAN STRAWBERRY 185 
varied into more than twenty forms, many of 
which were the choice of all the varieties. One 
of these, in the extra choice class, was Keen’s 
Seedling, which was at this time just coming 
into great importance. This variety was, 
in fact, the first worthy contribution to our 
present commercial strawberry culture, and 
an epoch maker. It was produced from the 
seed of Keen’s Imperial, this latter being 
raised from the White Carolina, or Large 
White Chile. Barnet regards this last as 
a true Pine strawberry. 
The present English strawberries have to 
a great extent descended from Keen’s Seed- 
ling. In 1821, at London, the fruit of this 
seedling was first shown. ‘There were appar- 
ently few, if any, varieties in England at 
this time that were of American origin. 
In 1828, Prince writes, of the thirty straw- 
berries in American gardens, all but one were 
of foreign origin. The two most important 
varieties, as well as the ones which supplied 
practically all of the fruit sold in the New 
York market, were Red Chile (which is 
classed by Barnet and Lindley with the 
Pines) and Early Hudson (which was un- 
doubtedly a variety of Fragaria Virginiana). 
