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texture. It forces particularly well, bearing abundantly, and 

 so treated acquires an excellent flavour. Mr. Atkinson states, 

 " that from a bed in his garden fourteen feet long and five feet 

 wide, a basket equal to a pottle and a half was picked every 

 day for nearly a month, and a considerable quantity besides 

 was wasted, from not being picked." 



7. Duke of Kent's Scarlet Strawberry. This was sent in 

 1802 to the Royal Gardens at Kew from Halifax in Nova Scotia, 

 by Mr. Michael Dalton, who was gardener to the late Duke 

 of Kent at the time he was Governor of Canada, and remained 

 there in his service some time after he gave up the command 

 of the colony. The Strawberry was named after His Royal 

 Highness. There is however another account of its origin in 

 the English gardens, as stated below, which makes its in- 

 troduction much earlier than that by Mr. Dalton, and which 

 accounts for one of its synonyms. It was sent to the Garden 

 of the Society by Mr. George Lindley, from his nursery 

 at Catton, near Norwich, in 1822; he received it from the 

 Rev. Robert Pointer, of Southoe in Huntingdonshire, to 

 whom it was given, about the year 1798, by the late Samuel 

 Whitbread, Esq. who brought it from Germany, and called 

 it the Austrian Scarlet. It was a favourite Strawberry for 

 forcing in the garden of His Royal Highness the Duke of 

 York at Oatlands, from which circumstance it derives others 

 of its names. 



Synonyms, 



Globe Scarlet. 



Cluster Scarlet. 



Prolific Scarlet. 



Austrian Scarlet. 



Early Prolific Scarlet, 

 Nova Scotia Scarlet. 



Duke of York's Scarlet. 



Oatlands Scarlet. 



