208 On the Variations of the Scarlet Strawberry. 



sent a few runners of those varieties which appeared to me 

 most deserving of culture, with a request that they may be 

 placed in the garden of the Horticultural Society. I have 

 numbered each variety, and will add an account of the pa- 

 rentage, and as accurate a description of each, as circum- 

 stances will enable me to give ; but all the varieties I send, 

 sprang from seeds in the spring of 1817, and of course pro- 

 duced their first fruit in the present year. 



No. 2. Produced from a seed of the White Chili and pol- 

 len of the Black Strawberry. The foliage and runners of the 

 plant are small, and its whole habit led me to expect the 

 fruit to be small also ; but it proved the largest I ever saw ; 

 one of the berries having weighed 274 grains. The colour 

 of the fruit was scarlet, the form conic, and not at all flat- 

 tened or deformed; and its taste and flavour were good, 

 though not such as would have induced me to send plants of 

 it, if the fruit had not been so unusually large. 



No. 3. Obtained from a seed of the Pine and pollen of the 

 Black Strawberry : its form is conic and long, like that of the 

 Alpine, and I have reason to believe that it will prove a very 

 productive and good variety. The fruit, in the present sea- 

 son, exceeded the size of the Pine in my garden. 



No. 4. This sprang from a seed of the White Chili and 

 pollen of the Black Strawberry. It retains the colour and 

 form of its female parent, to which it is inferior in weight ; 

 but it was in the last (its first) season, much the sweetest 

 Strawberry I ever tasted ; and I thought it the best. I had 

 also several opportunities of subjecting its merits to the 

 opinion of other persons, all of whom, without receiving any 

 leading questions, pronounced it most excellent. How far it 



