224 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The upright shoots, runners, leafstalks, &c. of strawberry plants have fairly thick 

 & plentiful hair or down on them. 



SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 



I . Common STRA WBERR Y PLANT with red fruit 



Common STRAWBERRY PLANT with red fruit. (PL l.) 



Wild STRAWBERRY PLANT. Wild STRAWBERRY PLANT DuCk 



Most of the strawberry plants that we will cover are found only in gardens. We 

 won't describe the wild strawberry as seen in woodlands where it grows on its own, but 

 rather the way it grows in kitchen gardens & in cultivated areas. 



In the wild this strawberry plant doesn't propagate many offshoots & the leaflets 

 on the largest of its leaves are barely two inches long by eighteen lignes wide. It gains so 

 much growth & vigor from cultivation & soil that it often forms clusters of fifteen to 

 twenty offshoots with a large number of leaves that have leaflets that are sometimes three 

 inches eight lignes long & two inches eight lignes wide. Their margins have long & very 

 sharp denticulations. The outside of the leaf is whitish green accented by thin but very 

 prominent veins. The green of the inside is more vivid than dark. It's indented with 

 grooves that are all the deeper because the leaf had been folded along each vein when it 

 was inside the bud, and it seems to have permanently retained an impression of that first 

 position. The stalks of the leaves are quite firm and four to seven inches long. 



The runners ordinarily have a red tint. They get very long & branch out a great 

 deal. 



Each offshoot often puts out several upright shoots that rise from six to ten inches, 

 produce a lot of branches, 



