210 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



broadly elliptical, with small rounded, bluntly pointed serra- 

 tures, not so thick in substance as Wilmot's Superb, their upper 

 surface smooth, slightly hairy, dark green, less rugose and not 

 so much cupped as in the Old Chili. The runners middle sized 

 (for this tribe) rising upright at first, and afterwards becoming 

 recumbent, like those of the Bostock and Old Pine, their upper 

 side is brownish. Scapes very short, stiff, somewhat erect ; the 

 peduncles long and branched ; the blossoms larger than those 

 of the Old Chili ; the anthers large and abounding in pollen. 



The fruit frequently attains a great size, weighing upwards 

 of an ounce. Mr. Williams observes that the flavour of this 

 Strawberry depends much on the season ; in the warm dry 

 summer of 1822 it attained great perfection. The under side 

 of the fruit, when mature, became of a fine yellow colour, and 

 the taste of the flesh much resembled that of a very fine ripe 

 Pine Apple. 



The production of fine and valuable Strawberries from the 

 Old Chili by impregnation with other kinds which bear per- 

 fect pollen, of which I have here recorded two recent instances, 

 is likely to afford an entire new stock of varieties to our gar- 

 dens ; they will have the merit not only of beauty and flavour, 

 but will produce fruit at a period of the year, when we are 

 without the luxury of Strawberries, except what the Alpines 

 and retarded or transplanted Scarlets afford. 



Class V. Hautbois* Strawberries. 



1. Common Hautbois. Bearing male and female flowers 



* I have adopted a mode of spelling the general name of this Class, which has 

 not been much used until lately; in the older gardening books it is usually called 

 Hautboy. The name is probably derived from the circumstance of the scape 



