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SUPER!071 ENGLISH PINE STRAWBERRIES. 
SUPERIOR ENGLISH PINE STRAWBERRIES. 
Swainstone Seedling. —A strong, fine growing 
plant, perfectly hardy, and better adapted to our 
climate than most of the English varieties. The 
nlossoms are unusually large, and are perfect in 
both organs. The fruit, which is borne on very 
high trusses, is esteemed by all who have tasted it, 
to be of the very first quality, solid, juicy, and 
highly aromatic. I am not acquainted with any 
other strawberry that will compare with it in point 
of flavor. The berries are of a medium size, nearly 
uniform in shape, and never assume a cockscomb 
form. Mr. Downing describes the berries as ave¬ 
raging from three and a half to four inches in cir¬ 
cumference. This strawberry may be considered a 
good bearer when under high cultivation; though 
my plants, which were grown in a poor soil, with¬ 
out much manure, bore very delicious fruit, but of 
less size than it would have been, had it grown 
under more favorable circumstances. 
Swainstone Strawberry.— Fig. 71. 
British Queen. —This magnificent strawberry, 
which was raised by Mr. Myatt, is now esteemed 
the best variety in England. Unfortunately, it is 
not a free grower, and is rather tender in this lati¬ 
tude, the old plants frequently dying off' in winter. 
North of New York, I think Myatt’s Eliza will be 
found to succeed better, being much more hardy, 
more free in its growth, and more productive, 
although it is smaller, but scarcely inferior in qua¬ 
lity. The blossoms of this variety are large, beau¬ 
tiful, and perfect, in both organs. T! e receptacle 
is large and well formed, but is liable to injury from 
cold rains. About the time the plan.s were in 
blossom, the present season, there was much rainy 
weather, the consequence of which was, that a 
large portion of the flowers failed to produce fruit. 
This also happened to many other staminate varie¬ 
ties. The fruit, when well grown, is of the first 
magnitude, solid, juicy, and peculiarly rich in flavor. 
Considering its size and quality , it is certainly not 
surpassed by any other strawberry under cultiva¬ 
tion, unless it be Turner’s Pine. Of the latter 
variety, very little is yet known in this country •, 
but in England, it is esteemed only for its large 
size. The difference in climate may essentially 
change its quality here. 
British Queen.— Fig. 72. 
Princess Alice Maud. —This fine new variety 
was produced from Keen’s Seedling, which it very 
closely resembles. Like its parent, it is a free 
grower, increasing rapidly by runners. It is one 
of the very earliest large-fruited kinds, being but a 
few days later than the Early Scarlet. On this ac¬ 
count it must be considered one of the most valu¬ 
able sorts, especially if it should prove sufficiently 
hardy, which there is reason to believe it will. For, 
some plants in my garden were unprotected last 
winter, which was a very severe one, without sus¬ 
taining any injury, and bore very abundantly this 
Princess Alice Maud.—Fig. 73. 
summer. The blossoms are more perfect in both 
organs than usual, the receptacle which becomes the 
