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if it's true as several people have claimed, is that it has produced fruit that's separate from 

 & out of reach of any other strawberry plant. Lastly, M. du Chesne discovered that the 

 male hautbois fertilizes the Chilean strawberry plant very well. Thus the defect in its 

 stamens & the absence of an individual male plant can be remedied. 



But this strawberry plant blooms extremely late, & sometimes the first of its 

 flowers open only at the same time as, or even after, the last of the flowers on strawberry 

 plants that can pollinate them. Ingenuity & skill in cultivation are required to ensure the 

 help that the flowers need to fertilize them in time. Therefore one can 1°. plant a bed of 

 Chilean strawberry plants between two beds of pineapple, hautbois, raspberry, or scarlet, 

 &c. strawberry plants in the hope that some of those that are slower to bloom will 

 coincide with the Chilean strawberry plant. 2°. plant the Chilean strawberry plant in 

 warm soil with good exposure. In March, transplant strawberry plants suitable for 

 pollinating them into pots & keep them in a northern exposure (two ways to delay their 

 flowering) and move them next to the Chilean strawberry plants when the latter begin to 

 bloom. 3°. select from among the pineapple, Bath scarlet, and Virginia scarlet strawbeny 

 plants the most vigorous of those that already have yielded fruit in frames during March, 

 & plant them between the Chilean strawberry plants. The former usually begin to bloom 

 again in June & July, the time when the Chilean strawberry plants are flowering. Those 

 who are dedicated to cultivating this strawberry plant will be able to find other ways to 

 achieve the same goal. I'd forgot to test whether Alpine strawberry plants can fertilize the 

 Chilean strawberry plant. Since they're in bloom almost all year long, they'll provide 

 more reliably than any other one the help needed for it to become productive. 



The flowers when fertilized yield bigger fruit than those of any other strawberry 

 plant. Often the ones on the first nodes are more than sixteen lignes in diameter and are 

 almost the same in height 



