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Identifier: fruitsofamericac00hove (find matches) Title: The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States Year: 1848 (1840s) Authors: Hovey, C. M. (Charles Mason), 1810-1887 Subjects: Fruit Fruit Publisher: Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown and Hovey Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Ripe in October, and keeps two or three weeks. (66) ) Text Appearing After Image: THE SCOTTS SEETJLIiX& STRAWBFJlET. Jrmts of Amertca^Plate fT^ DraWTt fromlfatixre & CIiromo,Litrii IjVf.Sh^rp. THE SCOTTS SEEDLING STRAWBERRY. Scotts Seedling. Magazine of Horticulture, vol. xx. 1854. Notwithstanding the great number of Seedling Strawberries thathave been produced by our American cultivators during the past fifteenyears, up to the time of the last Session of the American PomologicalSociety in September, 1854, only three varieties were recommended forgeneral cultivation by that inteUigent body, viz., Hoveys Seedling, Bos-ton Pine, (Hoveys,) and Early Scarlet; the Burrs Pine and JenneysSeedling, which were added to the list in 1852, having been withdrawnfrom it and placed among those adapted to particular localities. Thiscertainly seems somewhat remarkable when we take into considerationthe very large number which have been brought to notice as possessingpeculiar merits, since the introduction of our Seedling in 1835. Itproves, however, that the strawberry, thou Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the orig