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5. F. Virginiana.^te " Old Scarlet." Introduced 



from North America about 1620. The best of all 

 the primitive forms of strawberry. 



6. F. Gay ana. Nearly allied to the Virginiana. A 



variety with shining leaves is called F. lucida. 



Two ASIATIC OR NORTH INDIAN : 



7. The F. Daltoniana, and 



8. The F. Nilgherensis, neither of them in cultivation. 



Another classification, by Franz Goschke, in a much 

 esteemed German work upon the Strawberry, Das Btich 

 der Erdbeeren, etc. (Berlin, 1875), places the garden forms 

 under the names of 



1. The Forest Strawberry, Fragaria vesca. 



2. The Monthly, F. semperflorens. 



3. The Hautboy, F. elatior. 



4. The Scarlet, F. Virginiana. 



5. The Chili, F. Chiloemis. 



6. The Pine-apple or Large-fruited, F. grandiflora. 



All of these have contributed more or less to the 

 production of the inestimable modern strawberry of 

 English, French, Belgian, and American gardens. The 

 history of the various developments is not now within 

 reach : we may be thankful that whatever calamities may 

 befall other fruits, it must be something sad indeed that 

 hinders the strawberry from deserving every year the 

 matchless appellation of a fail-me-never, and, practically, 

 our wisdom is to inquire which of the hundred sorts will 



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