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been allowed a placein many a garden. It loves 
a soil of sandy loam, or a soil otherwise light, 
rich, and warm; and it may readily be raised 
from seeds, sown as soon as ripe, and cleared of 
pulp,—the seedlings to be finally bedded out in 
the following spring. Its fruit is red and small, 
and has a sweet tartish taste. A variety of it 
with white fruit, commonly called the white 
wood strawberry, ripens a little later in the sea- 
son, and has a quicker and to some persons more 
grateful flavour, but is generally less prolific. 
Another variety with green fruit, commonly 
called the green strawberry, the green pine 
strawberry, or the pine-apple strawberry, has a 
small, firm, much-admired fruit of high, rich, 
peculiar flavour. It is late in ripening, and re- 
quires a dry soil and an open situation, and may 
be grown at such small distances as six inches 
from plant to plant, and either allowed to run 
together or kept separate. 
The hautbois or hautboy or taller strawberry, 
Fragaria eatior, though not indigenous in Bri- 
tain, grows wild in some of our woods, and is a 
wide-spread native of other lands, and probably 
was introduced to Britain from both the old 
world and the new. It is supposed to have got 
its name from being found wild in the high 
woods of Bohemia; and it was long a chief fa- 
vourite among the cultivated strawberries of 
British gardens. Some of its flowers are occa- 
sionally or perhaps constantly defective, or, in 
popular phrase, “blind ;” and the plant, though 
belonging to the Linnean class Icosandria, has 
some claims to be considered dicecious. Its fruit 
are middle-sized, round, and somewhat depressed, 
—dark red when exposed to the sun, but other- 
wise dull white; and the pulp is substantial, 
greenish, very sweet, and has an agreeable musky 
flavour. This species loves a light, sandy soil, 
kept moderately rich by biennial applications of 
manure ; and when it is wished to produce large 
crops without fastidious regard to quality, it 
may be allowed to overrun the whole surface of 
the ground, and it will then maintain itself in 
vigour and yield a prolific produce for a series of 
years, with the simple aid of an occasional top- 
dressing of old hot-bed dung.—A variety of it 
called the prolific hautbois strawberry, not only 
bears well at the usual season, but sometimes 
yields a second crop in autumn. The fruit is 
large, dark red, swollen at the base, and con- 
tracted toward the point ; and the pulp is solid, 
greenish, and of a fine musky flavour. This va- 
riety, however, is in its prime in the second 
year, and becomes exhausted in the third.—T wo 
other varieties, called the globe and the flat, dif- 
fer from the normal plant principally in the 
shape of the fruit. 
The Chili strawberry, Mragaria chilensis, was 
introduced to Britain in 1727. It has large, 
thick, hairy leaves, on very strong hairy foot- 
stalks; and carries large and frequently deformed 
flowers in May and June; and is a vigorous 
STRAWBERRY. 
grower, but an uncertain bearer. Its fruit are 
very large, irregularly shaped, often deformed, 
and of a brownish white colour, with a little red 
on the sun-exposed side ; and the pulp is white, 
very firm, hollow at the centre, and of a rather 
flat flavour, especially when quite ripe. When 
this plant grows on strong land, in a shady situ- 
ation, and is allowed to run together, its produce 
is sometimes tolerably bulky, and has the recom- 
mendation of being ripe for use about the time 
the crops of most other kinds of strawberries 
have been all consumed. 
Wilmot’s superb strawberry resembles the 
Chili in habit, but excels it in size of fruit and 
in certainty of bearing, and is one of the finest 
varieties in cultivation. The fruit is irregular 
in shape, has large prominences on two or three 
sides, attains a weight under good culture of up- 
wards of an ounce, and sometimes of two ounces, 
and has a shining red colour, somewhat shaded 
with a deeper tint ; and the pulp is coloured, 
rm, and almost solid, and has an excellent fla- 
vour. The stems which carry the fruit are strong, 
and in general clustered; and some of them 
are benefited by being tied up. New plantations 
of this strawberry should be made every second 
year ; the soil chosen for it should be a fresh 
soft loam ; no strong manure should be applied, 
and only occasional top-dressings ; and the run- 
ners should be frequently cleared away to such 
an extent as to leave merely a sufficient number 
to form new plantations. 
The scarlet Virginian strawberry, Mragaria 
virginiana, was introduced from North America 
in 1629; and long possessed a fame in British 
gardens similar to the hautbois ; and is still one 
of the most generally suitable for cultivation 
whether in the open ground or by forcing. It is 
a good bearer ; and lovesa soil of rich loam ; and 
ripens in the south and centre of England in the 
latter part or toward the end of May. The fruit 
is middle-sized, somewhat pointed, and of a 
bright scarlet colour ; and the pulp is firm, and 
has a fine flavour. 
The Duke of Kent’s scarlet strawberry, or 
the Austrian scarlet strawberry, is a prolific 
bearer, and ripens in the south and centre of 
England about the middle of May, and is accele- 
rated in ripening by being planted on a sloping 
bank or sloping border with a warm exposure. 
The fruit is less than middle-sized, nearly sphe- 
rical, and of a scarlet colour; and the pulp is 
solid, juicy, and highly flavoured. New planta- 
tions should be made in such order as to allow 
all plants to be uprooted and thrown away after 
their third year; the soil-should be a mild, kindly 
loam, not overdosed with manure; and the dis- 
tances between the plants should be 12 inches 
from row to row and 9 from plant to plant. 
The Lewisham or cluster scarlet strawberry is 
a prolific bearer, and produces a succession of 
fruit through a considerable period. The fruit 
resists the bad effects of wet weather better than 
