A Guide to the Outdoor and Kitchen Garden

A Guide to the Outdoor and Kitchen Garden Review

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Aberdeen. Rose Strawberry. Aberdeen Seedling. Scotch Scarlet. Prolific Pine. Fruit large, conical and pointed, with a very short neck, dark red, hairy ; the early fruits assume a cockscomb shape where the plants are luxuriant. Seeds yellow, deeply embedded, between ridged intervals. Flesh firm, pale scarlet, with a core ; the flavour is not rich, it is however agreeable, and best when fully ripe. It is much admired by many, and even thought by some superior to the Old Scarlet. 59. Scone Scarlet. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 170. Fruit of a moderate size, round, without a neck, of a light shining red on the upper side, paler on the other, hairy. Seeds dark brown, deeply embedded, with round intervals. Flesh firm, pale pink; the flavour sharp, with abundance of acid. It is a great bearer, ripening late, and contains more acid than any other known strawberry. 60. Sir Joseph Banks's Scarlet. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 161. New Scarlet. Ib. Fruit of moderate size, oblong, with a neck, the apex blunt, of a bright scarlet. Seeds nearly prominent, with very flat intervals. Flesh bright scarlet, firm, and high-flavoured. This Strawberry is very closely allied with the Austrian Scarlet, with which it has probably sometimes been confounded, it ripens nearly at the same time, and though not so prolific, yet has a superior flavour. 61. Vernon's Scarlet. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 174. White's Scarlet. Ib. Fruit middle-sized, round, dark red, rather hairy Seeds slightly embedded, with flat intervals. Flesh K K pale vermilion, white in the centre, solid, and well- flavoured. A good bearer, and ripens early. 6...