By Mr. James Barnet. 



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3. Charlotte Strawberry. Was raised from seed a few 

 years since by Mr. Michael Keens of Isleworth. A short 

 account of specimens exhibited to the Horticultural Society 

 in 1821 is published in the Transactions,* but I suspect the 

 account of its origin, which is there represented to have been 

 the Pine, is not very correct. 



Synonym. 

 Princess Charlotte's Strawberry. 



It is a very moderate bearer, but ripens early. The fruit is 

 round, middle sized, hairy, when ripe dark purplish red ; the 

 flesh scarlet, firm, and very high flavoured. The calyx is small 

 and spreading. The* leaves are dense, with tall, slightly hairy 

 footstalks ; the leaflets are oblong, somewhat folded together, 

 spreading or reclined, of thick texture, with bluntly pointed 

 serratures ; the upper surface almost smooth, and a shining 

 dark green. The runners are slightly hairy, light brown 

 where exposed. The scapes are nearly half the length of the 

 leaf-stalk, hairy, with long peduncles ; the flowers are nume- 

 rous, early, larger than those of the Old Scarlet. 



In habit this variety is dwarfer than the Old Scarlet, its 

 leaflets are considerably darker and the fruit is higher flavoured, 

 it is perhaps the richest of all the Scarlets, which circumstance 

 joined to its dark colour, recommended it to notice on its 

 first introduction, and great expectations were raised of it. 

 but having proved unproductive, it will never be generally 

 cultivated. Its colour, which when fresh is very brilliant, be- 

 comes soon dull, and after having been separated a single hour 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Volume v. page 260, 



