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XXXI. Notices of New or Remarkable Varieties of Fruits, 

 ripened in the Summer and Autumn of the year 1821, which 

 were Exhibited at Meetings of the Horticultural Society. 



Strawberries. 

 The Rev. Thomas Garnier sent to the Meeting, on the 

 19th of June, specimens of the Roseberry Strawberry, which 

 had attained to a very large size without any deterioration 

 of flavour. This variety, which is now in general cultivation, 

 was first noticed and a very accurate figure of it given in the 

 second volume of the Society s Transactions, page 378, and 

 is now again mentioned for the purpose of correcting a mis- 

 take which occurs in that account of it. It is stated in the 

 page above referred to, that " some years since Messrs. John 

 and William Cadexiiead, very considerable market gar- 

 deners near Aberdeen, observed a single plant of this Straw- 

 berry (which had probably originated from an accidentally 

 sown seed) in their garden, and from certain peculiarities 

 noticed in it, were induced to increase it." It has since 

 been ascertained that the variety was raised from seed, about 

 twelve years ago, in the garden of Robert Davidsox, Esq. 

 at Aberdeen. Mr. Davidsox having at first observed the 

 vigorous growth of the plant, and afterwards its great fertility, 

 gave it to Messrs. Cadexhead, by whom it was named, and 

 made public. 



Mr. Michael Keens, of Isleworth, exhibited at the same 

 Meeting, specimens of the Princess Charlotte Strawberry, a 



