164 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



In habit this Strawberry is like the Hudson's Bay, hereafter 

 described, but its leaflets are smaller and more hairy, their 

 surface not so uneven, their texture thinner, and the fruit 

 much smaller. It has not such particular merits as to make 

 it an object of general cultivation. 



] 1. Clustered Scarlet Strawberry. This Strawberry was 

 received from the garden of the Duke of Buckingham at 

 Stowe, under the name of the Clustered Wood Pine, but as 

 it cannot be considered either as a Pine or a Wood Straw- 

 berry, it seemed necessary to give it a new appellation, which 

 has accordingly been done. It was not received from any other 

 quarter, and its origin in the garden at Stowe cannot be as- 

 certained, it is however conjectured that it . was introduced 

 there from Ireland, in the time of the late Marquess of 

 Buckingham. 



It is a good bearer, and ripens its produce later than many 

 other Scarlets. The fruit is obtusely conical, or nearly round, of 

 moderate size, very dark purplish red next the sun, the other 

 side paler ; the seeds are of the same colour as the fruit, 

 unequally embedded between the intervals, which are some- 

 times flat, and at other times bluntly ridged ; the flesh is 

 scarlet, firm, and well flavoured. Calyx large, spreading, and 

 sometimes slightly reflexed. The leaves are opaque, slightly 

 hairy, with tall footstalks ; the leaflets large, very flat, spread- 

 ing horizontally, elliptical, and pointed at the base, with coarse 

 bluntly pointed serratures, the upper surface hairy, yellowish 

 green. The runners are small, numerous, reddish on the 

 upper side. The scapes are shorter than the leaf-stalks, stiff, 

 upright, slightly hairy, branched ; the peduncles slender, of 



