PREFACE 



This book completes a survey of the strawberry as 

 grown in North America. Modern cultural methods 

 are presented in a companion volume, "Strawberry- 

 Growing," and all of the more than 1800 North Ameri- 

 can varieties are described in Technical Bulletin 11, 

 Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Blacksburg, 

 Virginia, "North American Varieties of the Strawberry." 

 The present volume deals mainly with the origin and his- 

 tory of the North American type* — one of the most 

 interesting chapters in our pomology. 



The assistance of many pomologists and cultivators 

 is gratefully acknowledged, more especially of Matthew 

 Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. A number of the illus- 

 trations are borrowed, for which acknowledgment is 

 made in the List of Illustrations. 



S. W. FLETCHER. 

 State College, Pennsylvania, 

 May 3, 1917. 



