200 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



from a polished surface ; the flesh pale red, firm, juicy, the 

 flavour very indifferent. The calyx is middle sized, spreading, . 

 or refiexed. The footstalks of the leaves are tall, nearly 

 upright, almost smooth ; the leaflets large, ovate, flat, with 

 bluntly pointed serratures, their texture thick, the upper 

 surface smooth, shining dark green. The runners numerous, 

 reddish and large. The scapes very short, stiff, erect, almost 

 smooth, branching, with long peduncles ; flowers small. 



This kind has little to recommend it to notice, its fruit 

 being neither abundant nor of good quality. I have not 

 been able to obtain any account of its origin or history. 



10. Keens Seedling Strawberry. No Strawberry that 

 has been recently produced has excited so much attention as 

 Keens' Seedling. It has consequently brought both fame and 

 profit to the Individual who had the good fortune to raise 

 it. Some of the first fruits which it produced were exhibited 

 to the Horticultural Society in 1821, and an account, with 

 a figure, of them was published afterwards.* It originated 

 from a seed of Keens' Imperial. 



Synonyms. 



Keens' New Seedling. Keens' New Pine. 



Keens' Black Pine. 

 A most excellent bearer, ripening early, soon after the 

 Scarlets, and before any other of the Pines. The fruit is 

 very large, round or ovate, some of the largest assuming a 

 cockscomb shape, when ripe of a very dark purplish scarlet 

 next the sun, the other side paler, slightly hairy ; seeds a little 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 261. 



