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off plants of it to grow in his own. From these came my 

 original stock, for Dr. Masters gave me some plants and 

 at the same time told me the account of his re-discovering 

 them. I had the pleasure of sending some to Cambridge 

 this year, for they had disappeared there, and I am quite 

 willing to send others to Plymouth if the descendants of 

 that good woman's daughter want them. 



The double-flowered Strawberry is really pretty ; the 

 first flowers of the season are like little white Roses, but 

 later on they come only semi-double, and these turn into 

 small fruits. The one-leaved Strawberry is not often seen. 

 It is only a variety of the wild Fargaria vesca, and known 

 as var. monophylla. Now and then the normal number 

 of three leaflets are produced on a leaf stalk, but as a rule 

 only the central and terminal one is developed, so that the 

 plant hardly looks like a Strawberry until it flowers and 

 fruits. This variety has appeared in several places ; Linnaeus 

 found it in his travels in Lapland, it is to be seen in a 

 picture by Holbein now at Munich, and Duchesne, the 

 author of the Historic des Fraisiers, raised it from seed of 

 the wild Strawberry. A handsomely variegated Strawberry 

 which bears large white fruits is the last of that family in 

 this plot of ground, for I have lost a white-fruited Alpine 

 form that ought to be here. 



I cannot describe all my maniacs so fully as these, and 

 will only mention a white-flowered Ajuga reptans, and that 

 strange form A. metallica crispa a Hen-and-chicken form 

 of the common Daisy, the Green Primrose, Parsley-leaved 

 Anemone japonica, the dwarf form of Daphne Laureola 

 known as Philippiana, and a form of Campanula lactiflora, 

 that instead of growing 6 feet is content with one, and has 

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