By Mr. James Barnet. 



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soil of the garden ; in stiff ground the leaves continue more 

 perfect, than in loamy or sandy land. 



Particular care has been taken to affix the proper names to 

 the old kinds, it being presumed that the future appellation 

 of each will probably be determined by the authority of the 

 Horticultural Society. The number of synonyms would have 

 been considerably greater had the names received from pri- 

 vate gardens been all adopted ; single instances of such use 

 cannot be considered worthy of record, and it is only where a 

 name has come from a Nursery Garden, or been used in more 

 than one private collection, that it has been thought proper 

 to treat it as established. Some instances will be found 

 where the Seedlings of individuals are entered as synonyms 

 of older kinds ; it must not however be inferred from this 

 circumstance, that in all these cases the persons whose names 

 they bear, did not obtain them from seed ; doubtless it was 

 so in many. The fact is that Strawberries frequently repro- 

 duce themselves unchanged from seed, and when that hap- 

 pens the new production cannot be treated otherwise than as 

 identical with that from which it sprung ; and from this ac- 

 cordance many new-raised individuals are necessarily joined 

 to their parents. 



Mr. Robert Gunter, of Berkeley Square, has been so 

 obliging as to furnish some useful information as to the qualities 

 of certain of the kinds when used as preserves, and I have only 

 to lament that every variety was not submitted to his exami- 

 nation, the result of which would have given to this Paper a 

 considerable additional degree of interest and value. 



