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LXXIV. Account and Description of the Downton Straw- 

 berry : a new Variety, raised by Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F. R. S. $c. President. By Joseph Sabine, 

 Esq. F. R. S. $c. Secretary. 



Read Sept. 7, 1819. 



A t the General Meeting of the Horticultural Society, in 

 August 1818, a Paper, by the President, on the variation of 

 the Scarlet Strawberry, propagated by seeds, was read, and 

 this communication was afterwards published in the Trans- 

 actions of the Society.* In the experiments made to ascer- 

 tain the facts therein stated, numerous varieties had been pro- 

 duced, some of which, it was confidently expected, would 

 prove of considerable value. In the Paper alluded to, short 

 notices were given of a few of those, which appeared likely 

 to justify this opinion ; but as the plants had been only 

 raised in 1817, the fruit which they had borne, at the time 

 when these notices were drawn up, was their first ; it was 

 therefore reasonably expected, that their future produce 

 would, be much superior. 



This expectation was particularly well founded in the 

 variety described in the Paper, as Number 7, but which 

 it is proposed hereafter to call the Downton Strawberry, 

 thereby recording the place of its origin. In the mid- 

 dle of last July, some specimens of the present year's 

 fruit were sent by Mr. Knight to the house of the Society, 



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