By Mr. James Barnet. 



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on different plants. This is the original type of the Class 

 from which the improved varieties have proceeded, and being 

 in fact a most unprofitable sort ought to be eradicated from 

 our gardens, and would probably have been so, but it has al- 

 ways been thought necessary to keep a stock of the male 

 flowering plants as an essential part of the plantation of a bed 

 of Hautbois. 



Synonyms. 



Hautbois. Dioecious Hautbois. 



Old Hautbois. Hautbois, or Musky. 



Original Hautbois. 



The footstalks of the leaves are of moderate length, very 

 hairy ; the leaflets middle sized, ovate, very deeply and sharp- 

 ly serrated, their texture thin. The runners numerous and 

 small. The scapes tall, upright ; the peduncles short, clustered; 

 the calyx very small ; the blossoms small. The flowers called 

 the males, producing occasonally a small imperfect fruit with 

 projecting seeds ; the female flowers bearing a small spherical 

 fruit, similar, but inferior, to that of the Globe Hautbois. The 

 male plants retain their old leaves sometimes, but the im- 

 proved varieties lose them, having only a few short and young 

 leaves continuing alive on their roots during the winter. 



It has been usual, and strongly recommended, to introduce 

 into every plantation of Hautbois Strawberries, plants of the 

 males of this kind ; these produce runners very abundantly 

 and the increase of these sterile plants has made the beds un- 

 productive. To avoid this, if such adventitious aid be con- 



which bears the fruit standing higher than the leaves, and consequently being 

 called Haut-bois. 



