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useful edgings for garden walks, and with good culture bear 

 considerable fruit, especially in the cool, moist months of 

 autumn. Because, throwing out no runners, they give very 

 little trouble, and I have ever found them the most satisfac- 

 tory of the monthly strawberries. I see no reason why a 

 good demand for them, as a fancy fruit, could not be 

 created. Be this as it may, there are many who are suffi- 

 ciently civilized to consider the home market first ; and a 

 dainty dish of strawberries on an October evening, and a 

 wood-fire blazing on the hearth, form a combination that 

 might reconcile misanthropy to the '' ills of life." Mr. 

 Downing states that the Bush Alpines were first brought to 

 this country by the late Andrew Parmentier, of Brooklyn. 



Wood Strawberries, IVhife a7id Red. — These are the Eng- 

 lish phases of the Alpine, or F. Vesca species. Their fruit 

 is not so conical as the Alpine of the Continent, or our own 

 land, but is " roundish ovate." They are said to be rather 

 more productive, but I doubt whether they differ materially 

 from the other Alpines, except in form. They are the straw- 

 berries that our British forefathers ate, and are the same 

 that the Bishop of Ely brought to the bloody Protector from 

 his '' gardayne in Holberne." 



MontreuiL — Said to be an improved variety of the 

 Alpines. 



Green Alpine (Green Pine or Wood, Fraisier Vert ) . — 

 '' This variety was, by some, supposed to be a distinct spe- 

 cies, but the appearance of the plant and fmit shows it to 

 be a true Alpine. Berry small, roundish, depressed, green- 

 ish brown ; flesh green, with a somewhat musky flavor." 

 (Fuller.) Mr. Downing says the berry is tinged with red- 

 dish bro^ii on the sunny side at maturity, and that it has a 

 peculiar, rich, pine-apple flavor. 



Under the head of Alpines, one finds in the catalogues 



