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the Soil it Is advanced, in Goodnefs , being full a* 
red , if not redder aln/ofi ns large again , and alfo 
'meliorated in its Winy Taffy. 
V. The third, or great white Strawberry. This 
is a very large Strawberry , extreamly blefhy, and 
of an admirable Taffe , and for Beauty fur pages all 
others : Parkinfon fays, that he had feen Jome of 
the Berries meafured , which had been near five 
Inches about . / have J'een them of an extraordinary 
bignefs , admirable to behold. I am apt to believe , 
that this is the Jo much admired V irginia kind, 
which 1 have feen grow to an admirable perfection in 
Strawberry White Great. 
the Gardens in Carolina, exceeding any that everl 
faw in England. It has been no long Inhabitant 
with us, being fir ft brought hither from Bohemia. 
At firft for want of Skill in managing it, it viry 
rarely bore any bruit ■, but now, if Planted in a 
good Ground, it bears in a vafi plenty. Formerly 
a Gardiner ( one Vincent Sion,) living by the Bank- 
Side, near the old Paris Garden-Stairs, laid that 
from /even Roots, in one Tear and a half, front their 
increafe, he had FI anted an Acre and a half of 
Ground , bcftJes ihofe which he gave away to his 
Friends, which bore Strawberries of that Magnitude 
or Great nefs before mentioned. If you would have 
them bear kindly, you mug not fuff er them to grow 
with many Strings, but ft ill cut them away. The 
Fruit of this diff ers not from the Garden red, but 
in its Magnitude , this being fo very much bigger, 
and not fo globular, but of a more Oval Form -, and 
in its Color, it being much whiter , viz. of a yellow - 
ifh Wlsite on one fide, and enclining to rednefs on 
the other, when it is full ripe. 
VI. The fourth, or Green Strawberry. It dif- 
fers not from the fecond kind, or Garden Straw- 
berry j bui in its bruit only, which is green on all 
Jidcs when it is ripe, except on the Sunny fide, where 
it is a little red, or reddifh 5 and in Magnitude is 
much equal to t he fecond or Garden kind. 
or Wild, or Barren Strawberry. 
Its ' Root is like the former, and in its Leaf much 
like to the firfi Wood kind, but differs in its Flower 
[if it has any ) which is Green, bearing rather a 
Jmall head of green Leaves, many fet thick together 
like unto a double Ruff, inthemidfi of which fiands 
the bruit, which when ripe, Jhews it f elf to be f oft 
and fomething reddifh, like unto a Strawberry, but 
with many fmall harmlefs prickles on them , which 
may be eaten and chewed in the Mouth , without any 
manner of hurt , and is pie af ant like a Strawberry * 
but it is truly without any great Sapor Juice, and a 
little Styptick or harfh upon the Tafte. It is no great 
Strawberry Barren or Wild. 
Bearer, but tliofe it iocs bear , are fet at the taps of 
the Stalks clofe together , pleafant to behold ; ani 
which a Gentlewoman may wear in her Bofom as a 
rarity, inftead of a blotter. 
VIII. Gerard fays, Its Roots and Leaves are like 
the others , but fomewhat left, its Leaves fofter 
flight ly indented about the edges, and of a light green 
color : Among which, rife up f lender Stems, bear- 
ing fuch Flowers as the common Strawberry does 
but leffer which wither away, leaving behind a bar- 
ren or chaffy head , in Jhape like a Strawberry s but 
of no worth or value. 
IX. T he P laces. The firft grows in Woods both 
in England and America upon Hills, Vallies 
Woody and Shadowy places-. But the four firft 
kinds are Inhabitants in our Gardens, all which I 
have feen grow admirably in Carolina, exceeding 
in Beauty, Largenefsand Pleafanrnefs, any I ever 
faw grow in England. The Barren kind is a Wild 
fort, and has been found growing (as Gerard fays,) 
on Black-heath, Greenwich-Far k, &c, but for its ra- 
rity has been brought into Gardens, 
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