232 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



are the same. The hair on the leafstalks, runners, & upright shoots is longer & thicker. 



The upright shoots are slender, rarely grow higher than six inches, & don't divide 

 into many branches. The flowers emerging from the first nodes on the uprights are about 

 six-&-a-half lignes in diameter. In rare cases they have supernumerary petals. But almost 

 all of the small indentations of the calyx split further, & the first nodes rarely fail to 

 produce a leaf. 



The fruit is bigger than the best looking wild strawberries. The ones that emerge 

 from the first nodes of the upright sometimes are close to eight lignes in diameter by 

 more than nine lignes high. They're very elongated. The roundest of them always come to 

 a point & are not flattened at the ends. However, plants that start to degenerate produce 

 spheroidal ones that are very flat at the ends. The first fruits picked from young plants 

 grown from seeds generally are much longer than those from plants that develop on 

 runners of old strawberry plants. They're conical, very elongated, almost cylindrical. 



The skin is a darker reddish-brown than that of the common strawberry. 



The flesh has much the same flavor & fragrance & lasts longer without spoiling. 



The seeds are dark brown, very numerous, situated on the surface of the skin, and 

 are not recessed. When they're sown in March, April, or May, the fruit is harvested before 

 winter from those plants that yield it, about four months after they've come up. In 

 contrast, young plants raised from the seeds of other strawberry plants only bloom in the 

 second or third year. 



Even in our climate the Alpine strawberry plant never stops setting, ripening, & 

 yielding 



