188 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



Either by accident or intention, the first letter of the name 

 was changed into an R, and the kind acquired a false celebrity, 

 as having been received from Rostock in Pomerania. 



Synonyms. 



Rostock. Caledonian. 



Rostock Seedling. Vernon's. 



Rostock Pine. Montague's. 



Rostock Scarlet. Prolific Bath. 



Wellington. New Bath. 



Cone. Whitley's Pine. 



By ram. Beattie's Seedling.* 



Called also, erroneously, by names to which it can have no 

 claim, as Bath Scarlet, Chinese, Red Chili, and Devonshire 

 Chili. 



Being a recent production, it is remarkable that it should 

 have received such a variety of names. Some of them, it will 

 be observed, are derived from persons or places by whom and 

 where it it has been grown. It derived its name of Vernon's 

 from Samuel Vernon, Esq. of Dee Bank, near Chester, whose 

 attention to the cultivation of Strawberries has been already 

 noticed, f Mr. Jonathan Salter sold it from his nursery 

 near Bath, under the name of Montague's, he having received 

 it from George Montague, Esq. of Corston, near Bath ; it 

 seems to have acquired popularity, in the neighbourhood of 



* About 181 1 or 1812 Mr. William Beattie, the gardener at Scone, raised 

 a Strawberry from seed, to which he gave his own name ; the parent of it he had 

 received as the New Bath Strawberry, is doubtless the variety now under descrip- 

 tion, since the seedling so nearly resembles it as not to be distinguishable, 

 t See Vernon's Scarlet Strawberry, page 1 JT 4 . 



