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quality. Ripens half-early. The result of a cross between General 

 Chanzy and Dr. Morere, it has inherited the delicate flavour of the 

 latter, while it has the shape of the former. Great productiveness 

 and larc^e fruit give it a first place among those varieties suitable 

 for field culture. 



Marguerite Strawberry. — Plant medium-sized ; leaf-stalks 

 rather short and slender ; leaflets long in comparison with their 

 breadth, light green, very smooth on the upper surface, and with 

 rather large sharp teeth on the margin of the upper half only of 

 the leaflet ; flowers medium-sized ; flower-stems short, extremely 

 branching, and almost trailing. Fruit very large, long, conical in 



Madame Mesle Strawberry. Marguerite Strawberry. 



shape, and vermilion-red in colour, even when the fruit is ripe ; 

 flesh pink, very juicy, melting, slightly deficient in sugar and 

 perfume ; seeds rather deep. A very productive, extremely early, 

 long-bearing, good forcing Strawberry. 



May Queen Strawberry. — Plant of medium vigour of growth, 

 leafy, very like the Scarlet Virginia Strawberry in habit ; leaf-stalks 

 nearly smooth ; leaflets of a very long oval shape, sharply toothed 

 on the upper two-thirds of the margin ; flowers medium-sized or 

 small ; flower-stems very branching, short, seldom rising above 

 the leaves. Fruit medium-sized or small, short, blunt, rounded, 

 and scarlet-red ; flesh pink or pale red, acidulated, perfumed, and 

 rather sugary ; seeds deeply sunk. The fruit is very agreeable 

 to the taste, especially as it ripens in the latter end of May 



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