THE STRAWBERRY. 



Tlie plants, when the fruit is setting and swelling, require to be liberally 

 supplied with water. 2. The Pitmaston black ; and 3. The sweet cone, are 

 both very high-flavoured, but too delicate for general cultivation. 4. Elton 

 seedling, syn. Elton. A great bearer, ripening late. 



3. Pine strawberries. Fruit large, varying from nearly white to almost 

 purple ; flavour sweet, and often perfumed. 1. Keens' Seedling, syn. Keens' 

 Black Pine : a great bearer, ripening early in the season ; the best straw- 

 berry for general purposes, and for forcing. 2. Old Pine, syn. Carolma, 

 and twenty other names. Fruit large, conical, with a neck ; flesh, pale 

 scarlet, firm and juicy, with a rich grateful flavour ; a good bearer in strong 

 loamy soil, in an open, airy situation, but not in a light soil, or when much 

 sheltered or shaded. The leaves are of a darker green than those of any 

 other strawberry. 3. Myatt's Pine ; high flavoured, but a shy bearer. 4. 

 Myatt's British Queen. A larger fruit than that of Keens' Seedling, and 

 having more flavoui- ; an abundant bearer, and a very free grower. 5. 

 Swainstone Seedling ; fruit large, bearing considerable resemblance to Keens'" 

 Seedling, but with a brisker flavour, and may be distinguished further by 

 its scabrous leaf-stalks ; a great bearer in the usual strawbeiTy season, and 

 it also produces an abundant late succession. 



4. Chile Strawberries. Fruit large, seeds prominent, flesh more or less 

 insipid. 1= Wilmot's Superb. Fruit very large, roundish, sometimes cock's- 

 comb-shaped, pale scarlet, flavour indifi^erent ; ripens rather late ; attains a 

 large size in strong, rich soil, but has no other recommendation. 



5. Hautbois strawberries. — Scapes tall and strong, fruit middle-sized, pale 

 greenish wliite, tinged with dull purple ; flesh solid and musky. 1. Prolific 

 hautbois, spi. Conical hautbois, double bearing, and various other names. 

 Fruit large for this class, conical, dull purple ; flesh greenish, firm, rich, 

 and perfumed ; ripening in the end of J une or J uly ; an abundant bearer. 

 In plantations of this variety there are commonly a number of plants found 

 sterile, from the abortion of the female organs, and sometimes of the stamens, 

 for which reason runners ought to be taken only from those plants that are 

 prolific. 2. Large flat hautbois. syn. white hautbois, Bath hautbois, &c. 

 Fruit large, roundish, reddish next the sun j flesh greenish-white, firm, 

 juicy, and musky ; a great bearer, ripening rather later than the preceding 

 sort, and, like it, subject to sterility. 3. Black hautbois ; darker coloured 

 and higher flavoured than the two preceding varieties, but not so prolific. 



6. Green strawberries, comprehending the Fragaria collina and F. viridis 

 of botanists. 1. Green strawberry, syn. green pine, pine-apple, green 

 alpine, &c. Fruit tolerably large, roundish, of a powdery green, tmged 

 with brownish red next the sun ; flesh solid, greenish, very juicy, with a 

 somewhat pine-apple flavour : ripe in July, and an abundant bearer, at least 

 in the Hort. Soc. Garden. 



7. Alpine and wood strawberries, comprehending the Fragaria semperflo- 

 reus, and F. vesca of botanists. The alpine and the wood-strawberry dififer 

 chiefly in the form of the fruit, which in the aipines is conical, and in the 

 wood varieties, roundish. 1. Red alpine, syn. scarlet alpine, Des Alpes a 

 fruit rouge, Des Alpes de tous les mois a fruit rouge, Des Alpes de quatre 

 saisons a fruit rouge. Fruit the largest of its class, conical, red ; flesh rich, 

 and high flavoured ; bears abundantly in light, sandy, rich soils, especially 

 when liberally supplied with water in dry hot weather, and continues pro- 

 ducing from June to November : the only strawberry generally cultivated 



