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berry, which was introduced here in 1904, and thrives as 

 well as the wild or wood strawberry. The Alpine straw- 

 berry resembles very much the wood strawberry in 

 foliage, habit and requirements, and is not so sensible to 

 brackish water as the wood strawberry, but the flowers 

 are much smaller, and the fruit is long and pointed at 

 both ends, and the flesh is orange red or pink. It is 

 almost as productive as the wood strawberry, and has 

 the advantage of producing an abundant second crop in 

 autumn, but the hamps are weak and therefore the fruit 

 often gets soiled with earth, and its texture and perhaps 

 also its flavour are coarser than those of the wood straw- 

 berry. Notwithstanding, this Alpine strawberry is re- 

 commendable for those who desire in autumn a strawber- 

 ry with the flavour of the local wood strawberry. 



3. The Pine-apple strawberry or English straw- 

 berry. Fragaria grandi flora, Khrk. This is probably 

 a cross between the Chilian and Virginia strawberries, 

 and has given origin to hundreds of splendid sorts which 

 have mostly supplanted other strawberries on the con- 

 tinental markets. The only pine-apple strawberry which 

 is sometimes grown on a commercial scale in these 

 Islands is the Victoria strawberry, but many other sorts 

 have been introduced during the last twenty years, and 

 are cultivated here and there in private kitchen-gardens, 

 though never on an important scale. Among the sorts 

 which have been introduced the following may be 

 mentioned : Royal Sovereign, British Queen, General 

 Chanzy, Louis Gauthier, Docteur Morere, Sensation, 

 Due de Malakoff, Lucas, Myatt's Prolific, Premier, 

 Gloire du Mans, Noble, Early Laxton, Madame Mesle", 

 and Saint-Antoine de Padoue, the best being Royal 

 Sovereign, Louis Gauthier, Docteur Morere, General 

 Chanzy and Sensation. Most of these pine-apple straw- 

 berries produce a second crop of fruits in autumn and 

 even in winter, if they are grown in a well sheltered 



