178 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



The scapes very short, hairy, branched, with short peduncles ; 

 the flowers large, and late. 



Of the seedlings enumerated in Mr. Knight's communica- 

 tion which has been referred to, four are described in this 

 Paper, viz. the two now just noticed, which were Numbers 10 

 and 14, Number 3 has been named the Sweet Cone, and 

 Number 7 is the Downton, both of these kinds will be found 

 in their proper places hereafter. Of Numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 17 

 and 18, descriptions will be given at a future period. Number 

 13 has perished both in the Garden of the Society and in that 

 at Downton ; it proved very tender, and not increasing itself 

 by runners, a defect stated of it originally, the variety is 

 entirely lost. 



In several of the nurseries round London some of these 

 varieties are sold under the name of KnigMs Seedling, but 

 from the examination I have been able to make of the plants 

 so called, I apprehend that they consist of more than one of 

 the above sorts. The runners having possibly become mixed 

 after they were distributed by the Society in 1819, when 

 samples of the whole were received from the President. 



24. Knighfs Large Scarlet Strawberry. This Straw- 

 berry was sent to the Society by the President ; it has been 

 some time known in many nurseries and private gardens, to 

 which it has been communicated under the designation of 

 the Female Parent of the Downton; it is also the original 

 from which the two preceding varieties were obtained. Mr. 

 Knight received it some years ago from Mr. James Au- 

 gustus Hunter, of Birmingham, into whose nursery near 

 that town it had been introduced as the American Scarlet, 



