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XV. An Account and Description of the different Varieties 

 of Strawberries which have been cultivated and examined 

 in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London, 

 By Mr. James Barnet, Under Gardener in the Fruit De- 

 partment of the Garden. 



Read December 7, 1824. 



Upon the establishment of the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society at Chiswick, in the spring of the year 1822,the Secretary 

 transmitted to such of the Fellows and Correspondents of the 

 Society, as were known to be attentive cultivators of Straw- 

 berries, a printed form, on which was to be noted, the names, 

 characters, history, &c. of the different kinds possessed by 

 each individual, to whom the enquiry was addressed. Up- 

 wards of seventy of these forms were filled up, and returned ; 

 they furnished, exclusively of a very extensive list of names 

 a great variety of useful information on the subject of Straw 

 berries, of which I have availed myself in this Paper. 



At the proper season, application was made to the persons 

 who had returned these forms, for runners of every kind no- 

 ticed in them, which, from its name, or any other circum- 

 stance, was considered likely to exhibit difference of character ; 

 the object being to form, as complete a collection as possible, 

 of all the Strawberries known in the gardens of the United 

 Kingdom. 



The parcels of runners thus procured amounted to upwards 

 of four hundred. Small quantities of each were planted, the 

 whole having been arranged, as systematically as the imper 



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