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by cutting off all the spring blossoms. The plant resembles 

 the Red Wood, and the fruit is similar in flavour and colour, 

 but long-conical in form. 



29. WHITE ALPINE. Thomp. 



White Monthly, 



Des Alpes a Fruit Blanc. 



Des Alpes de tous les mois a Fruit Blanc, &c. 



Precisely similar to the Red Alpine, except in colour. Fruit 

 conical, white. 



30. RED BUSH ALPINE. Thomp. 



Monthly, without Runners. 



Buisson. 



Commun sans Filets. 



Des Alpes sans Filets 



The Qush Alpines are remarkable among strawberries for 

 their total destitution of runners. Hence they always grow 

 in neat compact bunches, and are preferred by many per- 

 sons for edging beds in the kitchen garden. The fruit is coni- 

 cal, and the whole plant, otherwise, is quite similar to common 

 Alpines. We think it one of the most desirable sorts, and it 

 bears abundantly through the whole season. The Bush Al- 

 pines were first introduced into the United States by the late 

 Andrew Parmentier, of Brooklyn. To propagate them the 

 roots are divided. 



31. WHITE BUSH ALPINE. Thomp. 



White Monthly, without Runners. 

 Buisson des Alpes Blanc, &c. 



This differs from the foregoing only in the colour of the fruit, 

 which is conical and white. 



Class IV. Hautbois Strawberries.* 



[Leaves large, and crumpled, pale green, supported on tall stalks Fruit 

 talk tall and erect. Fruit, pale at first, dull purplish at maturity.] 



32. PROLIFIC, OR CONICAL. Thomp. 



Musk Hautbois. Double Bearing 



French Musk Hautbois. Caperon Royal. 

 Caperon Hermaphrodite. 



*Haut-bois, literally high-wood, that is, wood strawberries with high 

 leaves and fruit stalks. 



