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THE STRAWBERRY. 



Yellow Chili. 



Fruit very large, irregular in form, yellow, with a brown cheek. 

 Seeds slightly embedded. Flesh very firm, rather rich. 



GREEN STRAWBERRIES. 



Little valued or cultivated, being more curious than good. They 

 resemble, in general appearance, the Wood Strawberries. Leaves light 

 green, much plaited. Flesh solid. There are several sorts grown by 

 the French, but the following is the only one of any value, and it is a 

 shy bearer. 



Green Strawberry. 



Green Pine. Fraisier Yert. Green Alpine. 



Green Wood. Powdered Pine. 



Fruit small, roundish or depressed, whitish green, and at maturity 

 tinged with reddish brown on the sunny side. Flesh solid, greenish, 

 very juicy, with a peculiar rich, pineapple flavor. Ripens late. 



SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 



The Strawberry is so variable in soils and climates that it is very 

 difficult to select such as will always give satisfaction. We present the 

 following as a list embracing varieties that have proved satisfactory 

 with us : — 



Agriculturist, Charles Downing, Downer's Prolific, French, Green 

 Prolific, Hovey's Seedling, Jucunda, Longworth's Prolific, Napoleon III., 

 Poyal Hautbois, Triomphe de Gand, Wilson's Albany. 



Key to French standard names of Fruit. — To meet the wants of 

 some of our farming friends in various parts of the country who are 

 zealous collectors of fruit, but at the same time are more familiar with 

 plough-handles than with the sound of Monsieur CrapauaVs polite ver- 

 nacular, we have prepared the following little key to the pronunciation 

 of such French names as are necessarily retained among the standard 

 varieties. 



So long as these sorts must retain their foreign names, it is very 

 desirable that they should be correctly pronounced. To give to these 

 French terms what appears to merely English readers the proper sound 

 is often as far as possible from the true pronunciation. A skilful Hiber- 

 nian gardener puzzled his employer, a friend of ours, during the whole 

 month of September with some pears that he persisted in calling the 

 " Lucy Bony," until, after a careful comparison of notes, the latter 

 found he meant the Louise Sonne. 



We have therefore, in the following, eschewed all letters with signs, 

 and given, as nearly as types alone will permit us, the exact pronun- 

 ciation of the French names. 



