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serratures, and of very thin texture, their upper surface 

 hairy, and much furrowed. The runners are large, numerous, 

 and brownish The scapes very short, stiff, hairy, branched, 

 with short peduncles growing in clusters ; the flowers are 

 similar to those of the Old Black. 



In habit it resembles the Old Black, but its fruit is consi- 

 derably smaller, and its leaflets are longer and more furrowed. 

 Where variety is desired, it will be worthy of cultivation. 



4. Downton Strawberry. Was raised by the President 

 from a seed of the Strawberry, called Knight's Large Scarlet, 

 impregnated by the pollen of the Old Black. Amongst the 

 seedlings described in the third volume of the Transactions, 

 at page 207, this was Number 7. In the summer of 1819 

 specimens were exhibited to the Horticultural Society, and 

 a figure and account of the variety, there called the Downton, 

 from the seat of Mr. Knight, where it was produced, were 

 published in the Transactions.* It was subsequently very 

 extensively distributed by him through the medium of the 

 Society, and is now in very general cultivation. A further 

 notice of it was also publishedf by the Society in 1820, 



Synonyms. 

 Knight's Seedling. 

 Knight's Strawberry. 



It is an abundant bearer, coming in late, and as it ripens 

 its fruit in succession, lasts a considerable time. The fruit 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. Hi. page 396. 

 f See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. page 197. 



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