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Haarlem, the native species, Fragaria vesca, is preferred 

 for culture, and is very generally known by the name of 

 BosJcoej)cr strawberry, from the circumstance of the plants 

 being procured from the woods at Boskoop. The wild 

 strawberry is found to possess the property of continuing 

 very long in fruit, like the Alpine with us : at Haarlem, 

 the fruit is sometimes gathered for nine months in suc- 

 cession, from March till November ; but it is to be un- 

 derstood, that different lines of the plants have been 

 dressed at different periods of the season, and that attention 

 has been paid to watering the rows during the parching 

 droughts of summer. The cultivated plants are regarded 

 as exhausted after the second year ; they are therefore 

 rooted up and destroyed, and a new supply is obtained 

 from Boskoop. 



The district of Rorwick has generally been described as 

 dull and uninteresting. We have found it otherwise ; and 

 we may be excused for once more remarking, that in April 

 and May the environs of Haarlem must be truly delight- 

 ful to the zealous florist. 



Haarlem to Amsterdam. 



Sept. 1. — The 1st of September having already over- 

 taken us, we determined immediately to proceed to Am- 

 sterdam ; and, in order to vary the mode of travelling, we 

 hired a voiture to take us thither. We passed several 

 pretty villas, ornamented with tall hedges, avenues, and 

 groves, and soon came to the banks of the great lake, or 

 Haarlem Mere. At a place called Swanenberg, a very 

 narrow neck of land only, and that evidently artificial, 

 separates the waters of this lake from those of the River 

 Y, which are on a different level. This River Y is mere- 

 ly a branch of the Zuyder Zee, so named on account of 



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