Clausen: Ettersburg Strawberries 



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STRAWBERRIES FOR LAWN PLANTING 



The beach or sand strawberry [Fragaria chiloensis) which occurs almost from one end to the 

 other of the Pacific coast, is so hardy and resistant to all sorts of unfavorable conditions, 

 that it is often used in that region to cover slopes or exp3sed places, in landscape garden- 

 ing. This photograph shows it so used, and flowering freely, on the university campus 

 at Berkeley, California. (Fig. 16.) 



But aside from these general char- 

 acteristics of the sand strawberries of 

 the Pacific Coast, the species shows a 

 remarkable diversity of forms, so much 

 so as to lend considerable support to 

 the tendency of some systematists to 

 sub-divide the group still further. Mr. 

 Etter has growing at Ettersburg half a 

 dozen strains of F. chiloensis from 

 Chilean, Peruvian, and Calif or nian 

 sources and all of them possess distinct 

 characteristics which would unmistak- 

 ably separate them from one another, 

 and all appear to present notable 

 differences from the Alaskan form 



which Georgeson has used so successfiilly 

 in his plant breeding work. Thus for 

 example we have forms with light green 

 foliage and petioles covered with a 

 dense coarse pubescence. The Cali- 

 fornia forms for the most part have 

 glossy dark green leaves practically 

 free from any pubescence. Some forms 

 have characteristically long fruiting 

 trusses, while in others the trusses are 

 short. In some forms the berries are 

 nearly white in color, while others bear 

 distinctly red berries. The differences 

 extend to every character, and they are 

 mentioned here because they serve as 



