By Mr. James Barnet. 



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entertained as to what are really meant. The omissions in this 

 and all the other lists are far more numerous than they ought 

 to have been. Of the Wood Strawberry the White variety is 

 not noticed. In determining what are meant by Red and 

 White Pines, there could not be much question as to the latter, 

 and I have considered the Red Pine to be the Surinam, having 

 no doubt but that it is the Fraisier Ananas of Duhamel, from 

 whence was derived the name of Pine, which having also in 

 latter times been given to the Old Carolina, has created con- 

 fusion respecting the sorts. The one-leaved Strawberry is a 

 seedling from the Wood raised many years ago, and is now cul- 

 tivated more for curiosity and ornament than for its produce. 



I consider the improved edition of Abercrombie s Practical 

 Gardener as superior for an English Horticulturalist to any 

 of the other books more commonly used. Its list of Straw- 

 berries does not however contain any of the new sorts, but is 

 otherwise more correct than that of the preceding work. 

 Thirteen kinds are enumerated. 1st. Red Wood. 2d. White 

 Wood. 3d. Green Wood, {Hie Common Green Strawberry.) 

 4th. Scarlet, {Old Scarlet.) 5th. Large Carolina, {Old Pine.) 

 6th. Musky or Hautbois, {Globe Haulbois.) 7th. Black, 

 {Black Hautbois.) 8th. Chili, {True Chili.) 9th. Red Pine, 

 {Surinam.) 10th. White Pine, {Round White Carolina.) 

 11th. Red Alpine. 12th. White Alpine. 13th. One-leaved. 

 The Green Strawberry is here incorrectly placed as a variety 

 of the Common Wood, a mistake neither originating with nor 

 peculiar to the author, for many other writers have fallen 

 into the same error. The introduction of the Black Hautbois, 

 a kind but little known or distinguished, cannot be accounted 

 for ; had it not been placed as a Hautbois I should have sup- 



