156 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES II.— PR AG ARIA ELATIOR. Ehrh. 



Plate CCCCXXXIX. 



F. moschata, "Duchesne." Lindley, Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 96. 



F. magna, Thuill. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. VoL I. p. 536. Garcke FL V. N. & M. 

 Deutschl. ed. vi. p. 128. 



Leaves ternate ; lateral leaflets often stalked. Scapes densely 

 hairy, with the hairs reflexed-spreading. Pedicels with the hairs 

 spreading, reflexed. Flowers polygamo-dioocious. Calyx spreading 

 or reflexed after flowering. " Pruit-receptacle ovoid, contracted 

 and deprived of carpels at the hase." — (Gr. & Godr. I. c.) 



In woods and hedgerows, hut only where it has escaped from 

 cultivation. 



[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Perennial. Early Summer. 



Very like E. vesca, but a stouter and more hairy plant, often 

 destitute of runners. The leaflets more truly oval, and the lateral 

 ones ovate, less deeply and less sharply serrated, with the teeth 

 more rounded on the margins. Corymb more compact, and with 

 more numerous and larger flowers, which are imperfectly poly- 

 gamous through abortion, the stamens being imperfect in some 

 plants. The petals are larger, broader, more contracted at the 

 claw, which is yellow. But the best mark of distinction between 

 the two plants is the dense clothing of spreading hairs on the pedi- 

 cels, and the more hairy calyces. The fruit of the subspontaneous 

 plant I have never seen. 



Sautbois Strawberry. 



French, Frmsier eleve, German, Ilolie Erdbeere. 



The mysteries of horticulture, and the varieties of fruits of all sorts which are 

 produced by the skill of the gardener, increase so rapidly that our native fruits, in 

 •which they originate, can scarcely be recognized as related to the beauties which 

 adorn our tables. We see and admire the superb Myatt's seedlings and British Queens, 

 and can hardly trace in their luscious richness the likeness of their humble parents. 



Strawberry plants multiply spontaneously every year, as well by suckers from the 

 parent stem as by numerous runners, all of which, rooting and forming a plant at every 

 joint, require only to be removed to a bed where there is room for them to flourish. 

 Each of these will bear a few fruit the following season ; but it is in the second year 

 that we may expect a crop. Neill says, with regard to the situation of a Strawberry-bed, 

 " Strawberries are generally placed in a quarter of the garden by themselves, and it should 

 be one which is freely exposed to sun and air. They are sometimes, however, planted 

 in single rows as edgings to borders, and in this way they often produce large crops. 

 In either case, care must be had to replace them every fourth or fifth year at the 

 farthest." Mr. Keen, of Isleworth, who is one of the most successful growers of this 

 fruit, tells us that a bed of Strawberries should be formed from nmners which have 

 been planted out for this purpose the preceding year i it is a bad plan to form a now 



