. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . an original introduction from NorthAmerica, has been an inhabitant of our gardens for 2 B 274 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. nearly two Imndred years. The old black straw-berry, an unproductive sort, has been long; known inEnijland. The Chinese and the Surinam straw-berries are of considerable antiquity amongst • old pine, or Carolina, has been cultivated andhig;hly prized by the English growers, for manyyears. Since attention began to be paid to the cultureof strawberries, the number of varieties ha
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . an original introduction from NorthAmerica, has been an inhabitant of our gardens for 2 B 274 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. nearly two Imndred years. The old black straw-berry, an unproductive sort, has been long; known inEnijland. The Chinese and the Surinam straw-berries are of considerable antiquity amongst • old pine, or Carolina, has been cultivated andhig;hly prized by the English growers, for manyyears. Since attention began to be paid to the cultureof strawberries, the number of varieties has beengreatly increased. The British strawberries are di-vided into scarlet, black, pine, hautbois, green,alpine and wood, according to a classification in avaluable paper in the sixth volume of the HorticulturalTransactions. Of these varieties, the pine is the mostesteemed. It is a native of Louisiana and of Vir-ginia. Its colour is a deep red on both sides;and it is the most rich and highly flavoured of allstrawberries, constituting the most valuable varietythat has yet been a. Elder-berri/. b. Cloud-herry. c. Bramhle-herry. d. Bilberry. The Barberry—Berberis tree is a native originally of the easterncountries, though it is now found in most parts of J SMALLER BERRIES. Q7S Europe, where it thrives best upon light and chalkysoils. It £i;re\v formerly wild, in o-reat quantities,in the hedgerows of England, but has been uni-versally banished, from a general belief that its pre-sence is injiuious to the growth of corn. Duhamel,Broussonet, and other scientific writers, treat this be-lief as a vulgar prejudice. It should, however, beremarked, that the fructification of the barberry isincomplete, unless the stamens be irritated by insects,when the filaments suddenly contract in a most re-markable manner towards the germ. The flowersare, therefore, by a beautiful arrangement of nature,peculiarly attractive to insects ; and thus the barberrymay become i
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