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STRAWBERRIES. 



with a large core, pale scarlet, and very coarse, without any 

 particular flavour ; the seeds are very prominent and of a dark 

 shining red hue. 



BLACK PRINCE. Lond. hoet. traxs. Lind. 

 Wilmofs Black Imperial. 

 This fruit is of a very dark purplish hue, hairy, and of me- 

 dium size J its form depressed, spherical, with a furrow at the 

 apex ; the seeds slightly embedded ; the skin highly polished ; 

 the flesh solid, firm, of a rich dull scarlet with a small core ; 

 the juice dark and highly flavoured. 



GIBBS' SEEDLING BLACK. Lokd. hoet. teans. Likd. 



The fruit of this variety is small, conical, and hairy, with a 

 neck ; and of a dark purplish red colour ; the flesh scarlet, 

 firm and very high flavoured. 



OLD BLACK. Lond. hoet. teans. Lind. 



Black Pine. Turkey Pine, Mulberry. ^ Black Canterbury. 



This fruit is of a medium size, conical form, elongated, and 

 pointed, with a neck, hairy, and very dark purplish red ; the 

 flesh is scarlet and firm, with a buttery core, very rich and 

 high flavoured. 



PITMASTON BLACK. Pe. cat. Lond. hoet. teans. Lind. 

 Late Pitmaston Black. 

 This fruit is of medium size, ovate, with a neck, slightly 

 hairy, and of a very dark purplish red hue ; the flesh scarlet, 

 solid and very firm, buttery and of a rich flavour ; seeds are 

 slightly embedded. 



EARLY SCARLET. Pe. cat. 

 sZl^^sllrUt \ ofPrince'sCataloguesforthe last sixty years. 

 Morrisania scarlet. Lond. Hort. Trans. Lind. 

 Fragaria virginiana. Lin. Pursh. For. Nut. and other botanists. 



This is the type or original species of the class termed 

 " Scarlet strawberries." The plants in the garden of the 



