118 THE STRAWBERRY IN NORTH AMERICA 



Pine is a direct modification of the Chilean, was accepted 

 by De Candolle in his "Prodromus." This opinion was 

 shared by Duhamel, who stated that the Pine could be 

 raised from seeds of the Chilean. In more recent years, 

 L. H. Bailey has marshaled the arguments of history, 

 philosophy and botany, in support of this contention, 

 adding thereto an observation upon the behavior of some 

 plants of F. chiloensis that he transplanted from Oregon 

 to New York.^ Within three years they changed from 

 squat, blue-leaved, short-trussed, densely hairy plants 

 to "tall-growing, green-leaved, high-trussed and thinly 

 haired plants," closely resembling many modern varieties. 

 This, however, is not necessarily proof that the modern 

 strawberry descended from the Chilean ; it may be merely 

 proof of the remarkable plasticity of the species. Equally 

 marked variations from the type may be found in the 

 wild Chilean as it grows in different parts of the Pacific 

 Coast. 



The theory that the Pine is a hybrid between the Vir- 

 ginian and Chilean species has found wide acceptance. 

 This explanation was first advanced by Duchesne in 1766. 

 It is based more largely upon the fact that the Pine is 

 quite intermediate in botanical characters between the 

 Scarlet and the Chilean than upon definite historical 

 evidence. The argument in support of this contention 

 was presented by Vilmorin in 1898 : ^ "The first detailed 

 account of the large fruited strawberry was given by 

 Miller in 1759, with a good figure. As both the Chili 

 and the Scarlet, or Virginian strawberry, had been intro- 

 duced some forty or fifty years, the opinion expressed by 

 Duchesne ('Hist, des Fr.,' page 197), that it is a hybrid 



1 "Survival of the Unlike " (1896), pp. 400-417. 



2 Trans. Royal Hort. Soc, 1898-9, pp. 318-319. 



