216 Account and Description of Strawberries. 



thick, upper surface slightly hairy, shining yellowish green, the 

 spaces between the nerves flattish. The runners small; nume- 

 rous, brownish on the upper side. The scapes nearly as long 

 as the leaves; peduncles regularly branched, very short, strong; 

 flowers large, but smaller than in the Prolific Hautbois. 



A good bearer, coming into fruit rather later than the other 

 kinds in the Garden at Chiswick. At Formosa, the soil of 

 which is particularly favourable for Strawberries, it is a more 

 abundant bearer than any other Hautbois, and ripens earlier 

 than the kinds cultivated there. The calyx is slightly em- 

 bedded in the fruit, by which circumstance it is readily distin- 

 guished. It produces in mild seasons, a few autumnal fruits. 



I have thus completed my undertaking as far as I proposed 

 from the observations made in the last season, and have fur- 

 nished descriptions in the five first Classes as follows : 



Of Scarlet Strawberries 26 



Of Black Strawberries 5 



Of Pine Strawberries 15 



Of Chili Strawberries 3 



Of Hautbois Strawberries ----- 5 



Total 54 



I make no doubt that with the addition of the two remain- 

 ing Classes which I have not noticed, and of the varieties of 

 the other Classes yet undescribed, which are either at present 

 in the Garden of the Society, or which, though existing, have 

 not reached us, that the list may be extended to near one 

 hundred kinds. 



When a perfect knowledge of all has been obtained reduc- 



