172 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



as possessing both excellence in flavour and beauty in ap- 

 pearance. 



18. Bishops Seedling Scarlet Strawberry. The plants 

 were presented to the Society by Mr. William Falla, of 

 Gateshead, near Newcastle; it was raised in 1819, by Mr. 

 Thomas Bishop, gardener to Colonel Robert Smyth, of 

 Methven Castle, in Perthshire, from seed of the Hudson's 

 Bay, which, as 1 have before stated, is known in Scotland as 

 the Hudson's Pine. 



This Strawberry is a plentiful bearer, ripening very late. 

 The fruit is of moderate size, round, with a neck, hairy, 

 when ripe light scarlet, the seeds deeply and equally embed- 

 ded, the intervals ridged ; the flesh is solid, firm, pale scarlet, 

 with a moderate flavour. The calyx is reflexed. The leaves 

 are dense; the foot-stalks short, and almost smooth; the 

 leaflets large, short, light green, with deep and very coarse 

 serratures. Runners numerous, weak, and brownish. The 

 scapes remarkably short, very hairy, branched, with short 

 peduncles ; flowers small, opening late, with small stamens, 

 and imperfect anthers. 



In habit this Strawberry seems intermediate between the 

 Old Scarlet and the Hudson's Bay, but is much dwarfer than 

 the former, and ripens later, the leaflets also are shorter and 

 of thicker texture. The fruit is very superior in a jam, being 

 of good colour and flavour. It is altogether deserving of 

 cultivation. 



19. Methven Scarlet Strawberry. This was also raised 

 by Mr. Thomas Bishop, from the same seed and in the same 



