76 STRAWBERRIES. 



Many new seedlings sprang from it, and it was the 

 prevailing berry in English and French gardens, 

 says Fuller, until the South American species Grand- 

 iflora was introduced and supplanted it. This berry 

 is naturally much larger and sweeter and better 

 adapted to the English climate than our Virginiana. 

 Hence the English strawberries of to-day surpass 

 ours in these respects, but are wanting in that aro- 

 matic pungency that characterizes most of our ber- 

 ries. 



The Jecunda, Triumph, Victoria, etc., are foreign 

 varieties of the Grandiflora species ; while the Hovey, 

 the Boston Pine, the Downer, etc., are natives of 

 this country. 



The strawberry, in the main, repeats the form of 

 the human heart, and perhaps of all the small fruits 

 known to man none other is so deeply and fondly 

 cherished, or hailed with such universal d.elight, aa 

 this lowly but youth-renewing berry. 



