226 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Even though by cultivation this strawberry loses almost as much of its excellence as it 

 gains in size, no other except the alpine one can compare with it. 



The seeds are located in small recesses in the skin of large strawberries & level 

 with it on small ones. They are the same color as the skin but a darker shade. 



In a southern exposure the first crop of this strawberry plant is harvested around 

 the end of May, & the last one in a northern exposure about mid-August. 



II. Common STRAWBERRY PLANT with white fruit. C.B.P. 



Common STRAWBERRY PLANT with white fruit 



White wild STRAWBERRY PLANT White STRAWBERRY PLANT DuCk 



THIS STRAWBERRY PLANT is a variety of the preceding one. It differs from it in 

 the following ways: 1°. The leaves are lighter green, & the tips of the teeth are white. 2°. 

 The runners have no trace of red. 3°. The skin of its fruit is white; it yellows slightly 

 when ripe. 4°. Its fruit has less flavor & fragrance. Gardeners who know how to tell it by 

 its leaves, or who recognize its other characteristics, leave it in the wild & avoid 

 transplanting it into gardens. 



1 1 . Common semi-double flowered STRA WBERR Y PLA NT 



Common semi-double flowered STRA WBERRY PLANT 

 Multiple flower wild STRAWBERRY PLANT Double STRAWBERRY PLANT DuCh. 



THIS is another variety of the same strawberry plant; its distinguishing feature is 

 the flower. The petals number twenty to forty-five. Several rows of them are arranged in 

 front of one another & they get smaller as they get closer to the stem. As a result, the last 

 ones are merely very small augmentations of the stamens 



