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quite' prominent, not sunken as is usual in 

 the common strawberry, of very mild flavour 

 with a delicate perfume. The second variety 

 is the White Bush Alpine. Excepting the 

 colour of the fruit, which is pure white, it has 

 every characteristic of the previously de- 

 scribed variety. The third variety is the 

 Red Monthly Alpine. This plant produces 

 runners quite freely. The new plants pro- 

 duced on these runners will bloom and bear 

 throughout the first season. In this way it 

 is possible to keep up a succession of straw- 

 berries from June until the fall. The fruit 

 is very similar to the Bush Alpines. How- 

 ever, it is a little larger. The fourth variety 

 is the White Monthly Alpine. There is very 

 little difference between this variety and the 

 Red Monthly, except that the fruit of this 

 is pure white in colour. The great value of 

 this strawberry is for a conservatory plant 

 where the runners make a very desirable pot- 

 ted plant, trailing over wire screens or hang- 

 ing from baskets or boxes in the window 

 garden." 



In The Garden Magazine, May, 191 1, Mr. 

 H. S. Adams writes appreciatively of this 

 same type of strawberry as follows: 



