STRAWBERRIES. 



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green, with coarse serratures, which are large and rounded ; 

 the runners are small, numerous, greenish yellow, and slightly 

 hairy ; the scapes are of moderate length, sometimes very 

 short, branched, with short weak clustered peduncles middle- 

 sized, opening early." 



BLACK HAUTBOIS. Pr. cat. Lond. Hort. cat. Lind. 

 New Hautbois, 



The appearance of this plant is much the same as the other 

 varieties of its class ; its growth is quite strong, and indicative 

 of health and vigour ; the fruit is oblong and pointed some- 

 what obtusely ; it is a profuse bearer, and one of the best of 

 its class for a market fruit. 



KNIGHT'S NARROW LEAVED SCARLET. Pk. cat. ' 



Knights No. 14. 



The fruit of this variety greatly resembles the old Pineapple 

 strawberry, in flavour, form, and manner of growth, and the 

 plants also assimilate in their proportionate produce ; the ber- 

 ries are rather compressed or flattened, and are rounded at 

 the extremity ; they generally trail near the earth, and may, 

 in point of flavour and excellence, be ranked among the best. 



PROLIFIC HAUTBOIS. Fb. cat. Pom. mag. 



Prolific, or Conical Hautbois. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Double Bearing. Hermaphrodite. Spring Grove. 



The following remarks relative to this exceedingly valuable 

 variety are contained in the Pomological Magazine, and I 

 find them to agree precisely wiih my own views, and with my 

 own notes made on the same subject : 



"It is a common observation that good Hautbois strawber- 

 ries are nearly lost. This position is not correct. The Haut- 

 bois, which has male flowers on one plant and female on 

 another, is frequently found in our gardens, and as the sterile 

 plants of it are more vigorous than the fertile ones, the unpro- 



