156 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES IL—FRAGARIA ELATIOR. £ivh. 
Pirate CCCCXXXIX. 
F. moschata, “ Duchesne.” Lindley, Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 96. 
F. magna, Zhuill. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 536. Garcke Fl. V. N. & M. 
Deutschl. ed. vi. p. 128. 
Leaves ternate; lateral leaflets often stalked. Scapes densely 
hairy, with the hairs reflexed-spreading. Pedicels with the hairs 
spreading, reflexed. Flowers polygamo-dicecious. Calyx spreading 
or reflexed after flowering. ‘‘ Fruit-receptacle ovoid, contracted 
and deprived of carpels at the base.”—(Gr. & Godr. J. ¢.) 
In woods and hedgerows, but only where it has escaped from 
cultivation. 
[ England, Scotland, Ireland.| Perennial. Early Summer. 
Very like FI’. vesca, but a stouter and more hairy plant, often 
destitute of runners. The leaflets more truly oval, and the lateral 
ones ovate, less deeply and less sharply serrated, with the teeth 
more rounded on the margins. Corymb more compact, and with 
more numerous and larger flowers, which are imperfectly poly- 
gamous through abortion, the stamens being imperfect in some 
plants. The petals are larger, broader, more contracted at the 
claw, which is yellow. But the best mark of distinction between 
the two plants is the dense clothing of spreading hairs on the pedi- 
cels, and the more hairy calyces. The fruit of the subspontaneous 
plant I have never seen. 
Hautbois Strawberry. 
French, Fraisier élevé. German, [Hohe Erdbeere. 
The mysteries of horticulture, and the varieties of fruits of all sorts which are 
produced by the skill of the gardener, increase so rapidly that our native fruits, in 
which they originate, can scarcely be recognized as related to the beauties which 
adorn our tables. We see and admire the superb Myatt’s seedlings and British Queens, 
and can hardly trace in their luscious richness the likeness of their humble parents. 
Strawberry plants multiply spontaneously every year, as well by suckers from the 
parent stem as by numerous runners, all of which, rooting and forming a plant at every 
joint, require only to be removed to a bed where there is room for them to flourish. 
Each of these will bear a few fruit the following season ; but it is in the second year 
that we may expect a crop. Neill says, with regard to the situation of a Strawberry-bed, 
‘Strawberries are generally placed in a quarter of the garden by themselves, and it should 
be one which is freely exposed to sun and air. They are sometimes, however, planted 
in single rows as edgings to borders, and in this way they often produce large crops. 
In either case, care must be had to replace them every fourth or fifth year at the 
farthest.” Mr. Keen, of Isleworth, who is one of the most successful growers of this 
fruit, tells us that a bed of Strawberries should be formed from runners which have 
been planted out for this purpose the preceding year : it is a bad plan to form a new 
witty ee. oY vasa. 
