THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



NOVEMBER, 1844. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. The Monthly Alpine or Four-Seasons Strawberry. 

 By the Editor. 



Nothing has attracted our attention more, during our 

 visit to Paris, than the great quantities of the Alpine or 

 four-seasons strawberry offered for sale in the markets. 

 Passing through the Marchi St. Honori, we noticed hun- 

 dreds of baskets of them; and indeed at all the fruit shops, 

 and in the windows of the principal Cafes and Restaurants, 

 quantities of them were to be seen. The price in the mar- 

 ket, where we occasionally inquired, was fifteen sous (fif- 

 teen cents) or thereabouts, according to their size and 

 freshness, the basket containing a quart or more. Some 

 of them were remarkably large and fine, exceeding in size 

 the best common Wood strawberry. Anxious to learn the 

 best method of cultivating this strawberry, so desirable 

 from its continued productiveness, we made inquiry of M. 

 Jamin and other eminent cultivators, in whose gardens we 

 saw it bearing abundantly, and picked many superior 

 specimens of the fruit. 



In the last volumes of Loudon's Magazine^ some excel- 

 lent articles appeared on the cultivation of this variety 

 from seed, and extracts from these will be found in our last 

 two volumes. It is easily grown in this manner, and great 

 quantities are thus raised every year, the production of the 

 seed being quite an object to supply the seedsmen. It is 

 however as easily and rapidly increased by the runners, 

 when once there is a stock to commence with. 



As a reference to the volumes we have named will give 

 the desired information relative to the growth of the plants 



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