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VII. Smaller Alpine STRAWBERRY PLANT, always in bloom and bearing fruit. 



Alpine STRAWBERRY PLANT. (PL IL) 

 STRAWBERRY PLANT, always in bloom. Everbearing STRAWBERRY PLANT Du Cfr 



THIS STRAWBERRY PLANT clearly differs from the common strawberry plant in 

 several ways. Its almost constant productivity & its size, that even in the best of 

 cultivated soils barely matches that of common strawberry plants in the wild, are enough 

 to make the distinction. 



Its stem isn't very high. Some of the buds that form under the axillae of its leaves 

 produce runners that are very slender but forceful, with nodes not very far apart from one 

 another. These give rise to new plants that, as soon as they've put out some leaves, & 

 often before they're rooted in the ground, begin to bloom, unlike plants arising on runners 

 of the common strawberry plant that don't bloom until about a year after they've 

 appeared. Other buds produce upright shoots, sometimes as many as four or five on the 

 same stem. Some buds, a small number of them, yield new offshoots that are very weak 

 & unable to form good-looking plants unless care is taken to mulch them so that they take 

 root & get from the ground the nourishment that the mother plant hasn't sufficiently 

 supplied. Consequently, offshoots of this strawberry plant aren't propagated by 

 cultivation. This contrasts with the common strawberry plant that in the wild is often just 

 a single plant, but throws out lots of suckers under cultivation. 



The leaves are about the same size as those of the common uncultivated 

 strawberry plant. The leaflets of the largest ones are at most twenty-five lignes long by 

 fifteen to eighteen lignes wide. The outer & inner sides are covered with extremely short 

 & not very thick hair, but it's more noticeable than it is on leaves of the common 

 strawberry plant. The denticulation, arrangement of the veins, &c. 



