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close to the ground when ripe, quite covering the space round 

 the plant, in a remarkable manner. 



2. Bath Scarlet Strawberry, Though the characters of 

 this Strawberry are sufficiently known to leave no doubt as 

 to the proper application of the name, yet it was sent under 

 such a variety of other names, and in so few instances by that 

 which really belongs to it, as would in a less doubtful case 

 have excited much difficulty. 



Synonyms. 

 Bath Strawberry. Devonshire.* 

 New Bath Scarlet. North's Seedling.* 



Liverpool. Milne's Seedling.^ 



Golden Drop. 



* I have been informed by the gentleman who sent the Bath Scarlet with the 

 name Devonshire attached to it, that the cause of the use of that appellation was 

 simply that the plants had been brought to his garden from Devonshire, but there 

 are several instances in which the name of Devonshire Scarlet, and Devonshire 

 Chili, have been applied to other varieties of the class of Pine Strawberries. 

 A Strawberry called the Devonshire Chili certainly did exist many years ago, 

 but I have not been able to ascertain correctly to which of the sorts now in 

 cultivation the name ought to be applied ; that it belongs to one of them I have 

 little doubt, and believe it was an original name, but I regret that I cannot 

 attach it with certainty. 



f The name of North's Seedling, is given in different gardens to different 

 varieties of the class of Pines, but I suspect that it does not belong to any dis- 

 tinct sort. The name originated in a nursery garden in the parish of Lambeth, 

 which many years since belonged to a person named North, and I am inclined 

 to think that the proprietor found an advantage in disposing of certain kinds of 

 Strawberries as his own seedlings, in preference to selling them with their proper 



X The Strawberry said to have been raised by the late Mr. John Milne, for- 

 merly gardener at Fonthill, is certainly the Bath Scarlet, and may have been 



