144 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



of 50 feet, and huge panicle of flowers 40 feet more. It dies, like 

 many allied plants, after flowering. The species is recorded here 

 as a fibre-plant, but should also be cultivated for its ornamental 

 grandeur. 



Fragaria Chiloensis, Aiton. 



In various of the colder parts both of North and South America. 

 Chili Strawberry. 



Fragaria collina, Ehrhart. 



In various parts of Europe. Hill Strawberry. 



Fragaria grandiflora, Ehrhart. (F. Ananas, Miller.) 



Various colder parts of America. Closely allied to F. Chiloensis. 

 Ananas Strawberry. 



Fragaria Illinoensis, Prince. 



North America. Hovey's seedling and the Boston kind from this 

 plant. Is regarded by Professor Asa Gray as a variety of F. 

 Yirginiana. 



Fragaria pratensis, Duchesne. (Fragaria elatior, Ehrhart.) 



In mountain-forests of Europe. Cinnamon Strawberry. Hautbois. 



Fragaria vesca, Linne. 



Naturally very widely dispersed over the temperate and colder 

 parts of the northern hemisphere, extending southward to the 

 mountains of Java, ascending the Himalayas to 13,000 feet (J. D. 

 Hooker) Wild Wood Strawberry. From this typical form pro- 

 bably some of the other Strawberries arose. Middle forms and 

 numerous varieties now in culture were produced by hybridisation. 

 These plants, though abounding already in our gardens, are men- 

 tioned here, because even the tenderest varieties could be naturalised 

 in our ranges. Any settler, living near some brook or rivulet, 

 might readily set out some plants, which, with others similarly 

 adapted, would gradually spread with the current. 



Fragaria Virginiana, Miller. 



North America. Scarlet Strawberry. 



Fraxinus Americana, Linne.* 



The White Ash of North America. A large tree, more than 80 

 feet high, which delights in humid forests. Trunks have been 

 found 75 feet long without a limb and 6 feet in diameter (Emerson). 

 It is the best of all American Ashes, of comparatively rapid 



