By Mr. James Barnet. 



but not so abundantly as the Roseberry. The fruit is large, co- 

 nical, and pointed, with a very short neck, dark red, hairy ; the 

 early fruits assume a cockscomb shape where the plants are lux- 

 uriant ; the seeds are yellow, deeply imbedded, between ridg- 

 ed intervals ; the flesh is firm, pale scarlet, with a core ; the 

 flavour is but moderate, it is however agreeable, and best 

 when the fruit is full ripe ; it is much admired by many, and 

 even thought by some superior to the Old Scarlet. The 

 calyx is large and spreading. The leaves are very small, 

 growing on short, somewhat erect, hairy footstalks ; the leaf- 

 lets are oval, and pointed at both ends, flat, spreading or re- 

 clined, deeply and finely serrated, the upper surface hairy, 

 glaucous green. The runners are very numerous, small, 

 reddish where exposed. The scapes are very short in the 

 early part of the season (those produced later are longer) stiff, 

 hairy, with long ramified weak spreading peduncles; the 

 flowers numerous, large, opening early and continuing late ; 

 in dry weather the petals are slightly tinged with pink. The 

 old leaves remain tolerably perfect, during the winter. 



This Strawberry is well distinguished from others by its dwarf 

 habit and glaucous leaves. Since its introduction, and especially 

 after it was described and figured, it has rapidly spread into ge- 

 neral use. The fruit, by reason of the shortness of the scapes, 

 is formed near the ground and is consequently subject to rot. 

 As a forcer it has merit, because it sets readily and ripens soon, 

 but its great productiveness is probably the chief cause of its 

 popularity. It preserves tolerably, but the flesh is perhaps too 

 firm for that purpose, and it does not want flavour when mixed 

 with iced cream. The fruit is better, and produced in greater 

 quantities, in young plantations than in old ones. Of its pro- 



