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THE OLD P IN E , OR CAROLINA STAWBERRY.
Old Pine, or Carolina. Hort. Soc. Trans, vol. vi. p . 195.
Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p . 57.
No fewer than twenty-one synonymes are given
to this variety in the catalogue of the fruits cultivated
in the Garden of the Horticultural Society;
b u t some of them are easily referable to its proper
name, and others either originated in private gardens,
where its history was unknown, or were ap plied
by cultivators desirous of assuming credit for
the possession of it as a novelty. The publication
referred to having nearly dispelled this confusion
of nomenclature, it is not thought worth while to
perpetuate the recollection of it by repeating the
synonymes here.
The drawing was made in the Garden of the
Horticultural Society.
I t is very generally cultivated, and is found in
many gardens of old standing; its origin is unknown,
but is certainly British, for it is not found
in the gardens of France, and is not the Fraisier
Ananas of the writers of that country, as has been
sometimes supposed.
Its merit and value are universally adm itted ; and
amidst the diversity of opinions which must exist
as to which is the best Strawberry known, there
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