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& a large number of them produce fruit. Since these offshoots are crowded close to one 

 another, they grow a little taller than those of other strawberry plants, & their leafstalks 

 grow longer. For this reason it's sometimes called the bush strawberry plant. The other 

 parts of the plant are similar to those of strawberry plant n°.l, which makes it a stable & 

 very highly regarded variety; it perpetuates itself without degenerating by putting out 

 offshoots & by seeds. The first examples of this strawberry plant were discovered in the 

 wild & transplanted to gardens, where they're still all too scarce. If the common 

 strawberry plant & ihefraiserat [Translator's note: a common name for the sterile 

 strawberry plant] interacted with each other in some way, I'd suspect that this is the 

 product of it. It combines the qualities of this strawberry plant with the advantages of 

 growing suckers & not putting out runners. 



V. Common STRA WBERRY PLANT with simple leaves. 



Common STRA WBERRY PLANT with simple leaves. 



Single-leafed STRAWBERRY PLANT Versailles STRAWBERRY PLANT DuCh. 



M. DU CHESNE Jr. sowed seeds of the common strawberry plant in 1761 and 

 obtained a variety with simple leaves that is consistently propagated by seeds & by 

 runners. Its offshoots are a little longer, the upright shoots are branchier, & its flowers 

 more susceptible to the various irregularities noted above in the general description. 



But the most characteristic feature is that very few of the leaves, & only those on 

 some of the plants, are divided into two or three leaflets as on other strawberry plants. 

 The others are simple, indented fairly uniformly and deeply to form three sections, or 

 unevenly to form two. The rest (they're in the large majority) are simple & entire and 

 open up very widely. They form two large lateral leaflets on their sides that are joined 

 onto the same vein, or more correctly, three leaflets of an ordinary leaf arranged so that 

 the central leaflet is placed 



