By Mr. James Barnet. 



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embedded in the polished surface of the fruit, which has 

 usually a furrow at the apex ; the flesh is firm, solid, scarlet, 

 without any separable core, tolerably high flavoured. The 

 calyx is of moderate size, hairy, incurved. The footstalks of the 

 leaves are tall, slightly hairy ; the leaflets very large, roundish, 

 for the most part flat, reclined, of a very smooth shining dark 

 green, with coarse serratures, which are large and rounded. 

 The runners are small, numerous, greenish yellow, and slightly 

 hairy. The scapes are of moderate length, sometimes very 

 short, branched, with short, weak, clustered peduncles; 

 middle sized, opening early. 



This Strawberry is a very extraordinary production, pos- 

 sessing beauty, size, firmness of flesh, as well as productive- 

 ness, and that at a season when no other, at all approaching 

 it in appearance, is ripe. Though good, its flavour is sur- 

 passed by several, both in the Pine and the two preceding 

 Classes, but in the Public Market its external properties give 

 it a decided advantage over all the other kinds yet known. 

 The leaflets are the largest of the Strawberry tribe, middle 

 sized ones measuring four inches and a half across. It forces 

 well both late and early, bearing plentifully. 



11. Keens Imperial Strawberry. A production of an 

 earlier period by the Market Gardener whose name it bears. 

 It was raised from a seed of a Large White Chili ( White 

 Carolina) Strawberry about the year 1806. Some of its 

 produce were exhibited to the Horticultural Society in 1813, 

 and a figure with an account of the variety, was published* 

 in the Transactions. 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. 11.' page 101. 



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