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Account and Description of Strawberries. 



Synonyms 



Double Bearing. 

 Hermaphrodite. 

 Hudson's Bay. 

 **usk. 



Dwarf. 



Sacombe. 



Sir Joseph Banks'. 

 Spring Grove. 



Regents. 



Of the above synonyms that of the Musk, I conceive, is 

 applicable to every Hautbois, for they are described by 

 Botanists as being " fructu moschato." It came with the 

 name of the Sacombe Hautbois from the late Mr. James Lee, 

 of Hammersmith, who probably obtained it some years ago 

 from the late Garden of the Society at Kensington, to which 

 it had been sent as an improved variety from the Garden of 

 George Caswall, Esq. at Sacombe, in Hertfordshire. Why 

 it is called the Hudson's Bay Hautbois I have not ascertained. 

 The species is stated by Miller to have come originally 

 from North America, but I suppose that this particular va- 

 liety is the result of cultivation on this side of the Atlantic. 



This is certainly the best of all the known Hautbois, and 

 where only one variety is kept should be preferred to the 

 others. The fruit is large, conical, shorter and more obtuse 

 than in the preceding, the colour of it is dark, but not so deep 

 as in the Black Hautbois ; the seeds are slightly embedded, 

 the flesh solid, greenish, and high flavoured. The calyx is 

 small, and reflexed. The footstalks of the leaves are tall, 

 upright, slender, hairy, the leaflets middle sized, slightly fold- 

 ed together, irregularly oblong, with coarse serratures, of thin 

 texture, their upper surface ridged, hairy. The runners small, 

 numerous, brownish on the upper side. The scapes shorter 

 than the footstalks ; the peduncles branched, the partial ones 



