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STRAWBERRIES. 



well flavoured. Footstalks long and nearly smooth ; leaflets 

 small, oblong-, very deeply and sharply serrated, of a light 

 clear green colour, and slightly hairy on the upper side ; 

 scapes shorter than the footstalks, peduncles long, elevating 

 the fruit clear of the leaves ; calyx large and reflexed ; petals 

 unusually large, with a marked tendency to exceed the usual 

 number five, having frequently eight or nine ; filaments strong ; 

 anthers perfect ; fruit large for a Scarlet strawberry, of a flat- 

 tened, spherical figure, and a bright vermilion colour; grains 

 deeply sunken, with the intervals between them flattened; flesh 

 pale red, and firm. This is a genuine variety of our native 

 Scarlet strawberry, Fragaria virginica, and nearly approaches 

 it in foliage, &c. 



NAIRN'S SCARLET. Pe. cat. Lond. hort. cat. Likd. 



This strawberry, judging by the foliage, is evidently of the 

 same class as the old Hudson variety ; the fruit is also about 

 the same size, but much less pointed ; and although this kind 

 bears well, it does not equal that variety in abundance. 



KEEN'S IMPERIAL. Pr. cat. Lond. hort. trans. 



Keens' Black. Keens'' Black Pine. 



The fruit of this plant is large and rounded at the extremity, 

 but with somewhat of a point. Its growth and general ap- 

 pearance denote its alliance to the Pineapple class of straw- 

 berries. It was originated by Michael Keens, an intelligent 

 cultivator of fruits, living near London. 



BLACK ROSEBERRY. Pom. mag. Lond. hort. cat. 



The present variety is figured in the Pomological Maga- 

 zine, whence I extract the following description : 



" This is a singular fruit in its appearance, and peculiar in 

 its character and flavour. It was obtained by the London 

 Horticultural Society from the garden of John Williams, Esq. 

 of Pitmaston, under the name of Black round-fruited Rose- 

 berry, having been raised from the Common Roseberry, im- 

 pregnated by the pollen of the Early Pitmaston Black, from 



