ALPINE STRAWBERRIES 165 



Strawberry, has the same concentrated 

 sweetness, but more of it. Being different 

 from the ordinary cultivated strawberry, it 

 has the advantage of coming to the table 

 with a note of freshness — inaugurating a 

 little season of its own rather than extend- 

 ing a season already, perhaps, beginning to 

 pall on the appetite. 



"The plants, which run about eight inches 

 high, began to bear last year on the 23d of 

 June, and were picked for the table every 

 day for four weeks. So that, if they are not 

 strawberries of *four seasons' literally, they 

 have an unusually long fruiting period. 

 They are very prolific, and very hardy. In 

 short, they seem to have everything to recom- 

 mend them to the average home garden, 

 with nothing to be said adversely. 



"This strawberry is grown in somewhat 

 lighter soil than the ordinary kind. Plenty 

 of manure is used when the plants are first 

 set out, and then no more until a new bed is 

 made. The plants fruit the first year, but 

 much better the second. They are good for 

 three years. By setting out runners every 

 year, after the first, a complete succession 

 of prime bearing plants is insured. 



