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SWEET CONE STRAWBERRY.
Sweet Cone Strawberry. Hort. Soc. Trans, vol. vi. p . 186.
Hort. Soc. Cat. o f Fruits, p . 56.
This Strawberry was raised by Thomas Andrew
Knight, Esq., in his garden a t Downton Castle, in
Herefordshire, in the year 1817, from a seed of the
Old Pine or Carolina, impregnated by the pollen of
the Old Black, thus combining the qualities of the
two best-flavoured strawberries a t th a t time existing
in our gardens. Its greater aflinity is to its male
parent, and it has consequently been placed, in the
paper above quoted from the Transactions of the
Horticultural Society, in the class of Black Strawberries.
I t is a moderate bearer, but produces fruit
more abundantly in a shaded and moist situation
than when exposed to much sun. I t is hardier than
the Old Black Strawberry. The plants grow bushy,
producing few runners. The deficiency is, however,
frequently supplied by the first scapes forming
young plants, which when p u t into the ground emit
roots.
Leaves yellowish green; foot-stalks erect and
slightly hairy ; leaflets small, oval, coarsely serrated,
convex, their upper surface very slightly hairy.