514 Notices respecting Strawberries cultivated in Scotland. 



more extensive. Of these the rent varies from £5. to £15. 

 per acre, those being cheapest which are farthest from the 

 city. The average price of labour per acre, including car- 

 riage, &c. is less than £5, and the rate of profit, taking a 

 combined average of seasons and situations, is from £35. to 

 £40. per acre. Occasionally a much greater sum is obtained. 

 In one instance, within my own knowledge, a gross amount 

 of £120. was made from a single acre, planted in equal por- 

 tions with the Old Scarlet and Roseberry varieties. Greater 

 sums than this have been talked of, and I have heard that 

 3400 Scotch pints have been gathered from one acre and a 

 half of the Roseberry kind, but I have not been able to au- 

 thenticate any of these statements. The usual rate of produc- 

 tion is much below this, and in dry seasons very far so indeed. 



The following are the varieties* usually brought to the 

 Edinburgh market. 



The Old Scarlet was long the only Strawberry cultivated 

 in this part of the country, and is still a great favourite. 



The Roseberry of late years disputed the superiority with 

 the preceding variety, but is now in less repute, on account 

 of its liability to become injured, and to lose its flavour by 

 carriage. 



The Surinam is grown in considerable quantities under 

 the name of Hautbois, among the Vendors ; and of Chili, 

 among the Gardeners. It is likewise mixed with the three 

 following kinds, the relative proportions of which I have been 

 unable to determine. 



* The names of the varieties of Strawberries, used in this communication, are 

 those established by the Horticultural Society of London, in a Paper printed in 

 their Transactions, (Vol. v. page 145), under their authority. 



