THE ELTON SEEDLING STRAWBERRY.
Among the many hundreds of Seedling Strawberries
which have been raised by the indefatigable
perseverance of Mr. Knight, the Downton has been
the only one which has appeared likely to reward
his labour, by its becoming a variety m general
cultivation and esteem. But it has been lately discovered,
that another, which was formerly given
away by Mr. Knight, under the name of No. 1, is
likely to rival it, and to become at least as extensively
useful.
This, the subject of the present Plate, had been
overlooked, both in the Garden of its discoverer and
elsewhere, till attention was called, m the Garden
of the Horticultural Society, to its lateness and
beautiful appearance. More care has since been
taken in its cultivation, and it has proved to be a
variety of the very first class in point o f excellence,
of which it is not too much to say, that it stands
upon a level with the celebrated Keen’s Seedling.
It is a healthy, hardy sort; it bears most profusely;
the fruit is very large and handsome; it
ripens so late as to furnish a supply of Piiie Strawberries,
to which class it belongs, long after all the
other Pine-like sorts are over ; and finally it possesses
the great merit of packing well, and of being
particularly fit for preserving, a quality o f which very
few Strawberries can be said to be possessed. All the
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