By Mr. James Smith. 515 

 The Glazed Pine. 

 The Chinese. 



The Round White Carolina. 



The Hudson's Bay is pretty common under the name of 

 the Mulberry, and is used as a kitchen fruit. 



Keen's Seedling, and Keen's Imperial, appeared in small 

 quantities last season. The name of the former has already 

 been corrupted by the growers into King's Seedling. 



The real Hautbois, of which there are some varieties in 

 our gardens, are never offered for sale, as from their appear- 

 ance they do not attract in the market. The Alpine Straw- 

 berries are also confined to private gardens. 



I have not been able to ascertain correctly, the names of 

 the kinds which are sold in the Glasgow market ; but I 

 believe they are generally the same as those cultivated for 

 sale round Edinburgh, with the addition of the Bostock, 

 which is superseding all the other Strawberries at Glasgow. 

 An acre of this variety in 1825, produced 1600 Scotch pints, 

 but in the present still dryer season, only 1333. 



The culture of Strawberries for the market, does not es- 

 sentially differ from that which is practised in private gardens ; 

 but as it has somewhat more of an agricultural character, it 

 may not be uninteresting to notice a few of its details. 



Formerly Strawberries used to be cultivated, especially in 

 the environs of Edinburgh, on steep sloping banks. Such 

 situations afford very early fruit, which brings a high price; 

 but as the crop is always small, and in dry seasons less, they 

 are only in a few instances used at present. Those places 

 are preferred which are open, but not exposed, generally 

 flat, or sometimes the lower half of a gentle declivity. As to 

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