234 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



& are rarely split. The inside sections close down over the receptacle after the petals have 

 fallen off. The stamens are in good shape & their tips are full of pollen. Although there's 

 no apparent defect in the pistils, they nevertheless abort. The receptacle completely dries 

 up or doesn't show any complete or regular growth at all. Sometimes a single pistil, or 

 three or four, are fertilized, & part of the receptacle that supports them enlarges & turns 

 into something like a berry, or a partial strawbeny. If the pistils are at some distance from 

 one another, a sort of irregular fruit forms consisting of several small berries that are 

 attached and joined together on the same stem, as with some raspberries where most of 

 the ovaries abort. These malformed products have a slight reddish tinge on the side 

 toward the sun. 



Consequently this strawberry plant should be destroyed wherever it's found rather 

 than cultivated & propagated. 



IX. STRAWBERRY PLANT, downy, full-flowered with largest fruit, from Chile. 



STRAWBERRY PLANT from Chile. (PL III) 



Chilean STRAWBERRY PLANT. Frutiller. Du Ck [Translator's note: the early Spanish 

 conquerors of Chile called this plant Frutillar.] 



This is the easiest strawberry plant of all to recognize. It has unique features that 

 readily distinguish it from all other strawberry plants. It grows & develops slowly. It's not 

 very bushy because it doesn't put out many offshoots, & each offshoot usually has only 

 eight or ten leaves. Its upright shoots, runners, and leafstalks are much thicker than those 

 of any other strawberry plant, & the entire plant, except for the fruit & the interior parts 

 of the flowers, is covered with long & extremely thick whitish hair. 



The leaves, on stalks that are three-&-a-half 



