176 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



the leaves are tall, weak, almost smooth ; the leaflets small, 

 coarse, and irregularly serrated, shining light green, their mar- 

 gins hairy. The runners are numerous, reddish on the upper 

 side. The scapes very short, slightly hairy, stiff, with long 

 slender peduncles ; the flowers are large, and the petals be- 

 come tinged with pink in dry weather. 



In habit this Strawberry is like the Roseberry ; the leaves, 

 however, are weaker, smoother, and not so glaucous; the 

 fruit, by reason of the shortness of the scapes, and the weak- 

 ness of the peduncles, when ripe, lies near the ground. Mr. 

 Williams reports that in light soils the plants continue to 

 bear for three or four years without being renewed from run- 

 ners ; and that the fruit from the old plants is more rich, and 

 is also carried higher from the ground. 



22. Autumn Scarlet Strawberry. Was raised from seed, by 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. the President, in his garden 

 at Downton, in 1817. It is the kind noted as Number 10, 

 in the Account of several Seedling Strawberries communi- 

 cated by Mr. Knight, and published* in the Transactions 

 of the Society. It sprang from a seed of that variety of the 

 Scarlet, now known by the name of Knight s Large Scarlet, 

 impregnated by the pollen of the Old Black. Having fol- 

 lowed the character of its female parent, it is placed in the 

 class of Scarlets. The appellation given to it denotes the 

 period of its yielding its produce. 



It is a good bearer. The fruit is about the size of the Old 

 Scarlet, ovate, with a neck, of an uniform dark shining red ; 

 the seeds are yellow, deeply embedded, with ridged intervals ; 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iii. page 207. 



