By Mr. James Barnet. 



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is tolerably productive, and comes into bearing later than 

 some of the others. 



6. Grove End Scarlet Strawberry. A seedling raised 

 by William Atkinson, Esq. in his garden at Grove End, 

 Marylebone, in the year 1820. Some of the first produce was 

 exhibited to the Society on the 18th of June 1822, and an 

 account of it was subsequently published.* 



Synonym. 

 Atkinson's Scarlet. 



An abundant bearer, ripening its berries in succession, and 

 also early. The fruit is of considerable size, depressed-spherical, 

 of a uniform bright light vermilion colour ; the seeds are 

 slightly embedded, between flat intervals ; the flesh is pale 

 scarlet, firm, with a core ; the flavour is agreeable, and slightly 

 acid. The calyx is large, spreading, and somewhat reflexed. 

 The footstalks of the leaves are very tall, weak, and almost 

 smooth ; the leaflets are very small, oblong, slightly folded 

 together, spreading or reclined, very deeply, coarsely and 

 sharply serrated, the upper surface slightly hairy, shining 

 light green. The runners are weak, numerous, reddish on 

 the upper side. The scape is half the length of the footstalks, 

 which grow from eight to twelve inches high ; the peduncles 

 are long and slender ; the blossoms large and early, con- 

 tinuing late. 



A first rate Strawberry. In habit like the Roseberry, but the 

 leaves are more elevated, and they do not shade the fruit 

 much ; it is singular on account of the coarseness of the serra- 

 tures, although the leaves themselves are small and of thin 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 399. 



