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vermilion colour ; much esteemed for preserv- 

 ing; size large for a scarlet; somewhat spheri- 

 cal and depressed; flesh palish scarlet; of an 

 agreeable sub-acid flavour; in perfection during 

 the end of May and towards the middle of June, 

 somewhat later in Scotland, continuing to bear 

 during three weeks or more in succession ; leaf 

 more than usually wide in the serratures. 

 Eaised from seed by the late W. Atkinson, Esq., 

 in his garden at Grove End, about the year 1820. 

 Synonym — Atkinson's scarlet. 



CuthilVs Black Prince. — This is unquestionably 

 the earliest strawberry in cultivation ; an excel- 

 lent bearer, and, so far as our experience goes, 

 of all others of its class the best for early forcing. 

 Fruit conical ; colour rich and darkish ; flavour 

 excellent. The habit of the plant is dwarf and 

 slender; leaves small, and slightly glaucous 

 beneath; foot-stalks of the leaves and stolons of 

 a peculiar reddish colour ; trusses of fruit often 

 as large as the whole plant. The flowers remain 

 often attached to the calyx till the fruit is ripe ; 

 many of the petals tinged with red. Synonym 

 — St Andrews fine. 



Cuthill's Prince of Wales. — We have some 

 doubts whether this should be classed as a 

 Scarlet or Pine ; this, however, in no way affects 

 its excellent merit of being one of, if not the 

 latest in ripening, which renders it equally 

 valuable with the last. If planted in a northern 

 border in the neighbourhood of London, it will 

 bear fine fruit up to the beginning of September, 

 and a fortnight later in most parts of Scotland, 

 continuing much longer in use than the Elton 

 pine, hitherto considered amongst the latest of 

 our strawberries. Colour scarlet; form conical; 

 flavour excellent; size nearly equal to that of 

 Keen's seedling. 



Coul late scarlet. — Form ovate ; size large for 

 its class ; quality excellent, and an abundant 

 bearer; ripening, in the neighbourhood of Lon- 

 don, about the middle or end of July, conse- 

 quently later in Scotland. Synonym — Sir Geo. 

 M'Kenzie's late scarlet, with whom it originated 

 at Coul, in Ross-shire. 



Old scarlet. — Form roundish; size medium 

 for its class; flavour excellent; ripening from 

 the middle to the end of June, and much sought 

 after by confectioners on account of its fine 

 colour, which, however, is in this respect rather 

 inferior to the Grove End. Synonyms — Scarlet 

 Virginian, Virginian, Scarlet, Early scarlet, Ori- 

 ginal scarlet, Old Bath scarlet of some. Disap- 

 pearing rapidly from cultivation, and, with the 

 other Scarlets, will soon be found only in private 

 gardens, the large manufacturing confectioners 

 preferring the Keen's seedling, a very inferior 

 fruit for the purpose. 



Roseberry. — Fruit conical ; large for its class ; 

 flavour excellent ; plant of slender growth ; an 

 abundant bearer, continuing long in succession ; 

 ripe about the end of June and beginning of 

 July. Also valuable as a preserving fruit, and 

 forces well. It was raised from seed, at Aber- 

 deen, about thirty-five years ago. Synonyms — 

 Scotch scarlet, Aberdeen, Aberdeen seedling, Rose 

 (from the original plant being found under a 

 rose-bush), Prolific pine, Brickley scarlet. 

 Bla ck strawberries.— Myatt's pine. — Fruit oval ; 



size large ; quality excellent ; ripe about the end 

 of June ; flavour exceedingly rich, and, notwith- 

 standing all that has been said, very good bearer, 

 particularly during its second year. 



Elton. — Form ovate; often depressed or cock's- 

 comb shaped; size very large; quality excellent ; 

 one of our very best late sorts, ripening about 

 the end of July and beginning of August in the 

 neighbourhood of London; in perfection during 

 August and early part of September in Scotland, 

 particularly when planted on a northern border; 

 colour dark shining red when exposed to the 

 sun, palish where shaded by leaves; a very great 

 bearer. It requires to be thoroughly ripened, 

 else the natural acidity will be predominant. 

 Synonym — Elton seedling. 



Downton. — Form oval ; size large. " The best 

 of its class," Mr Thompson remarks, "all its 

 properties taken into consideration." One of 

 Knight's numerous seedlings, ripening about 

 London during July, in Scotland during the first 

 fortnight of August. Readily distinguished from 

 any other strawberry by the form and colour of 

 its leaves. Synonyms — Knight's strawberry, 

 Knight's seedling, not often now met with in 

 gardens. 



Pine strawberries. — Myattfs British queen. — 

 One of our most popular strawberries, and 

 deservedly so, being high-flavoured, of large 

 size, and an immense bearer, as well as very 

 handsome fruit, weighing often from one to two 

 ounces each, and in some cases measuring 5 

 inches in circumference. The habit of the 

 plant is strong, therefore requiring plenty of 

 room, even to the extent of 2 4 feet between the 

 rows, and 18 inches plant from plant in the line. 

 It is, nevertheless, a rather tender variety, re- 

 quiring to be grown in a good climate or on a 

 warm border, and in cold situations should be 

 protected during winter by laying littering-dung 

 between the rows and around the plants. It 

 forces remarkably well, but for this purpose is 

 better adapted for the later crops than the very 

 early. It is not improbable that already good 

 and inferior varieties exist of this excellent fruit, 

 a circumstance not at all unfrequent amongst 

 strawberries, when left for more than two years 

 in the same place, as seedlings may spring up 

 amongst the older plants unobserved. And if 

 seedlings are designedly raised, this may to some 

 extent account for this strawberry succeeding 

 well in some places and not in others. That 

 keen observer of such matters, Mr Cuthill, of 

 Camberwell, has rather more than hinted at this, 

 in his remarks on the superior crops produced 

 by Mr Beach, of Worton. " I am not certain," 

 he says, " that Mr Beach's Queens are not alto- 

 gether different from those of others, as I myself 

 have often found my beds sport." The finest 

 crops of this variety are produced in newly- 

 cultivated, deep, alluvial, loamy soil, such as 

 that in the Royal Gardens at Frogmore, where 

 this strawberry prospers amazingly. It, how- 

 ever, does not dislike a light soil, provided it is 

 rich and trenched very deep; in such it pro- 

 duces excellent crops of very large fruit in the 

 Dalkeith gardens. 



Hyatt's Eliza. — Form oval; size medium for 

 its class; quality good. Ripens about the middle 



