THE STRAWBERRY. 



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of June around London, and the beginning of 

 July in Scotland. A good variety. 



Myatt's Deptford pine. — Fruit roundish ovate ; 

 size large, and quality excellent. Ripens about 

 the end of June about London, and toward the 

 middle of July in Scotland. The leaves are 

 very downy on the under side. 



Myatt's Eleanor. — Fruit ovate, often com- 

 pressed; size large; quality good; an excellent 

 bearer; and although ripening during July about 

 London, is found by experience to be the best 

 and latest of all the large sorts cultivated in 

 Scotland, the fruit occasionally attaining the 

 weight of 2 1 ounces, and bearing during the 

 end of August and part of September. 



Myatfs mammoth. — Fruit irregular roundish ; 

 size very large, which is its chief merit. Ripens 

 about the beginning of July about London, 

 towards the end of that month in Scotland. 



Keen's seedling. — Fruit large, round, or ovate, 

 often compressed on the sides, and assuming a 

 cock's-comb appearance ; colour dark purplish 

 scarlet; flesh scarlet, firm, with a pleasant fla- 

 vour. It is not only an early variety, but a 

 most abundant bearer and excellent forcer, and 

 at present more extensively grown in commer- 

 cial gardens than any other. It has been the 

 most useful strawberry of its date of origin, but 

 even with all its excellent qualities, in favour- 

 able climates it will likely give place to the 

 British queen, or others of more recent date. 

 Synonyms — Keen's black pine, Keen's new seed- 

 ling, Keen's new pine, Murphy's child. 



The old pine, or Carolina. — Fruit large, oval, 

 or conical, occasionally cock's-comb shaped ; 

 colour bright scarlet; flesh palish, firm, and 

 juicy, with a very rich flavour; excelled only, in 

 our estimation, by the British queen in the class 

 to which it belongs. It is described in the 

 " Pomological Magazine " " as a good bearer on 

 suitable soils and in proper situations. It is so 

 firm, and at the same time so abundant in rich 

 juice, that its greater weight is almost sufficient 

 to distinguish it when compared with an equal 

 quantity of any other sort. Its leaves are also 

 of a darker green than those perhaps of any 

 other kind of strawberry. It ripens later than 

 the preceding sort, and although not so very 

 productive as the one just alluded to, yet its 

 superior richness renders it highly deserving of 

 cultivation." In this description we perfectly 

 concur, and regret to add that so truly excel- 

 lent a variety should be neglected for others of 

 far less merit. We have forced this strawberry 

 most successfully. This variety is believed to have 

 been introduced to Britain many years ago from 

 Carolina, and nearly all the class of Pines have 

 been directly or indirectly raised from it. Thus 

 it has become the parent of some of the very 

 finest strawberries we have. Synonyms — Scar- 

 let pine, Old scarlet pine, Old Carolina, Common 

 Carolina, Carolina pine, Large Carolina, Caro- 

 lina, Blood pine, Pyne hill, Pine, Grandijlora, 

 Black pine, Borsdorf, Surinam or Scarlet-fleshed 

 of some (but not the True Surinam), Superior, 

 Shew's scarlet, Kew pine, Windsor pine, North's 

 seedling, Devonshire scarlet pine, Varnished, Bar- 

 ham pine, Regent's favourite, Cock's-comb pine, 

 Miss Gunning's pine. 

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Ingram's Prince of Wales. — Fruit of large size, 

 fine shape, and of a beautiful glossy red colour; 

 flesh light red, solid, very juicy, and of exqui- 

 site flavour. Ripens ten days earlier than the 

 British queen. The fruit bears carriage well, and 

 consequently it will be a useful market variety. 

 The plant is of free growth, compact habit, 

 hardy, and very prolific. Raised by Mr Ingram 

 of the Royal Gardens at Frogmore in 1849, and 

 there extensively cultivated for forcing, open- 

 air culture, and also for autumnal bearing. 



Comte de Paris. — Fruit roundish; size large; 

 quality good. Ripens about London from the 

 beginning to the middle of July; ten days later 

 at Dalkeith. An excellent variety, nearly allied 

 to the Elton. 



Kittley's Goliath. — Fruit roundish ovate ; size 

 large ; quality good. Ripens about the begin- 

 ning of July; ten days later in Scotland, where 

 it bears abundantly. 



Hotey's seedling. — Fruit very large, roundish 

 oval, or slightly conical; deep shining scarlet; 

 seeds slightly imbedded ; flesh firm, with a rich 

 agreeable flavour. This is an American variety, 

 raised by Mr Hovey, an enterprising nursery- 

 man of Boston. The plants are unusually vigor- 

 ous and hardy, producing very large crops, and 

 the fruit is always of the largest size and finely 

 flavoured. The leaves are large, rather light 

 green, and the fruit-stalk long and erect. Con- 

 sidered in the States to be the finest of all their 

 large strawberries, and succeeds well in Britain 

 wherever it has been tried. It is nearly allied 

 to Keen's seedling, which is no bad recommenda- 

 tion of it. 



Boss's phoenix. — Fruit very large, generally 

 cock's-comb shaped or compressed; colour very 

 dark purplish red, with a shining surface ; flesh 

 firm, of the richest pine-flavour. This is another 

 American strawberry of great merit. It is de- 

 scribed by Downing as having " all the good qua- 

 lities of Keen's seedling, with the great additional 

 ones of being perfectly hardy, and always bearing 

 most abundant crops." It appears to be a very 

 hardy variety, and might be suitable in climates 

 where the large new kinds would do little good. 

 It was raised from seed of Keen's seedling in 

 1837, by a Mr Ross, of Hudson, New York. It 

 resembles the parent, but the leaves are broader, 

 very dark green, with very coarse serratures, 

 and lie close to the ground. 



Princess Alice Maud. — Fruit roundish ; size 

 large; quality excellent. Ripe from the middle 

 to the end of June; in many respects resembles 

 Keen's seedling. 



Trollop's Victoria. — A first-class fruit of great 

 size, great bearer, and well adapted for forcing. 



Nicholson's Ajax. — A first-rate fruit, of large 

 size and excellent flavour. Mr Cuthill, in bear- 

 ing testimony to its merits, says, that nine fruit 

 of this variety, after two days' travelling, weighed 

 16 ounces. 



Princess-royal. — Fruit ovate ; size large ; qua- 

 lity good. Ripens about the end of June in the 

 neighbourhood of London. 



Prince Albert. — Size very large; form ovate; 

 colour rich scarlet ; flesh rather soft, and not so 

 high flavoured as the British queen, and some 

 others of the recently produced large sorts. It 



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