168 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



space to secure the due admission of light to the fruit. It is 

 a variety of considerable merit, and worthy of general culti- 

 vation. 



14. Hudson's Bay Scarlet Strawberry. This kind has 

 been in our gardens twenty years, and perhaps more. It was 

 cultivated by the late Sir Joseph Banks, at Spring Grove, 

 as the American Scarlet ; he imported some new Strawberry 

 plants from the neighbourhood of York River in Hudson's 

 Bay about the year 1816, which proving identical with those he 

 had previously possessed, established the correctness of the 

 name by which it is now most known, and which has been 

 adopted in the Garden of the Society. For the original intro- 

 duction it is believed that Cultivators are indebted to Messrs. 

 Brown, late Nurserymen at Perth ; Mr. Robert Brown, 

 one of the brothers, and partners of that firm, has informed 

 me that they imported it between thirty and forty years ago 

 from Rhode Island in America, and it was called by them 

 the Hudson's Pine Strawberry. 



Synonyms. 



York River Scarlet. Late Scarlet. 



American Scarlet. Hudson's Pine. 



It came also from private gardens as A thinsoiis Scarlet and 

 Hopewood's Scarlet, but there does not appear to be any good 

 authority for such names. 



It is a good bearer, and free grower, but not early. The 

 fruit is large, with a neck, irregularly shaped, approaching to 

 ovate, of a rich dark shining red ; seeds unequal in size, deeply 

 embedded, with ridged intervals ; the flesh pale scarlet, firm, 



