HYBRID STRAWBERRIES 



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use, but for cooking and preserving it is unsurpassed, superior 

 even to the famous Vicomtesse Hericart de Thury. 



Van-Guard Strawberry. — A very productive, vigorous, bushy 

 plant, with laree dark green leaves. Fruit medium-sized, but very 

 numerous, globular or oblong in shape, of bright red colour ; seeds 

 almost projecting ; flesh pink, fairly sweet, but not much perfumed. 

 It bears larger fruit than any of the other early sorts. Its chief 

 merits are its great earliness and its abundant and prolonged yield. 



Barnes's White Strawberry {Bicton Pine). — Plant of moder- 

 ately vigorous, rather thick-set habit of growth ; leaves rounded, 

 dark, shining green, deeply and rather sharply toothed ; veins very 

 distinctly marked ; leaf-stalks long, slender, and green ; flowers 

 numerous, small, and 

 borne on short branch- 

 ing stems which are 

 scarcely taller than the 

 leaves ; fruit round or 

 conical, blunt, white 

 slightly tinged with 

 pink ; flesh very white, 

 not crisp, sugary, juicy, 

 and a rather strong 

 musky flavour ; seeds 

 half-projecting, red or 

 brown. Fruit ripens 

 mid - season. A very 

 productive variety, 

 especially notable for 

 the white colour of the 

 fruit. After fruiting, 

 the plant remains re- 



markably compact and Belle de Cours Strawberry. 



thick-set. It produces 



few runners, and these are short, stiff, and thickish, and bear the 

 clusters of leaves closer together than the runners of most other 

 Strawberries. 



Belle de Cours Strawberry.— A vigorous sort, ripening late,, 

 with numerous conical dark red fruit ; flesh rosy white, firm and 

 sweet. A garden more than a market variety. 



British Queen Strawberry.— Plant of medium height, and 

 somewhat delicate ; leaves oval, rather long ; leaf-stalks hairy, often 

 red ; leaflets oval, nearly round, with very large short teeth ; 

 flowers very broad ; flower-stems stout, usually taller than the 

 leaves ; pedicels inclined to be thick and hairy ; fruit very large, 

 oblong, often flattened, conical or square at the end, of a vermiUon 

 colour w hich is never very dark ; flesh white, firm, very juicy, sugary^ 



