STRAWBERRIES. 



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tvhich it derives the remarkable dark colour of its skin. It 



may be cultivated in any good garden exposed to the sun, 

 and is a tolerable bearer, ripening about the middle of the 

 season of the Scarlets, to which class it belongs. Leaves 

 dark green ; footstalks of moderate length, slightly hairy ; 

 leaflets middle-sized, roundish, with obtuse and wide serra- 

 tures, the upper surface hairy ; scapes short, with long and 

 numerous spreading peduncles ; calyx small, incurved ; petals 

 roundish, small, somewhat tinged with pink ; stamens of mid- 

 dling length ; anthers perfect; fruit of good size, bluntly coni- 

 cal, dark purplish red and shining ; grains slightly sunken, 

 with the intervals between them flattened ; flesh dark red next 

 the outside, solid, buttery, and juicy, with a very excellent 

 flavour, difiering much from other strawberries." 



LONG CONICAL WOOD. Pk. cat. 



Raspberry flavoured. 



This variety I raised about three years since, from seeds 

 received from Paris, under the title of Raspberry Jlavoured 

 straicberry ; it differs from the other kinds in my collection, 

 the fruit being of a very long conical form. It produces well, 

 and I have noticed that some of the plants have blossoms on 

 them when the main crop is fully ripe. 



NEW HUDSON. Pr. cat. 



This strawberry was raised from seed about eight years 

 since, in a garden near New- York. The fruit is large, being 

 about the same size as the old Hudson, from which it probably 

 originated, but it is more rounded and less pointed at the ex- 

 tremity ; the fruit stems are also more upright, and seldom fall 

 down and settle near the earth, as is often the case with that 

 variety : on the other hand, it is not so great a bearer, and 

 consequently less valuable. 



LARGE EARLY SCARLET. Pr. cat. 



The fruit of this variety is quite large, being of the size and 

 form of the Hudson, from the seed of which it is supposed to 

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