By Thomas Ardrew Knight, Esq. 199 



Note by the Secretary. 

 The runners alluded to in this Letter, did not arrive at the 

 House of the Society, until after the Meeting of the 15th of 

 August. When received, they were distributed, pursuant 

 to the general direction of the Council in such cases, to the 

 principal market-gardeners, and nurserymen, connected 

 with the Society, and to such of the Members, as were known 

 to be attentive cultivators of Strawberries. The specimens 

 of fruit received from Mr. Knight, as well as some few 

 which ripened in the garden of the Society, on very weak 

 plants, fully justify the character which has been given of it 

 in the account published in the Transactions. There is in 

 its flavour, a peculiar sweetness and richness, quite unlike 

 that of any other Strawberry : and though it cannot be ex- 

 pected, that its qualities should be fully decided on, until it 

 has been produced in considerable quantity, yet what has 

 been this year seen of it, has not in the least diminished the 

 expectation that it will be hereafter considered as of first 

 rate excellence. The Downton Strawberries, which have 

 been exhibited this year to the Society, had less of the 

 Cockscomb form, than those seen last year ; they were ge- 

 nerally similar to a blunted Pine Strawberry. 



