FRAG ARIA, STRAWBERRY PLANT. 239 



if all of these structures on this plant didn't have much less hair. 



When the quality of the soil & the presence of shade are favorable for growth, the 

 leaves, on large stalks seven to eight inches long, open up very wide. The leaflets are 

 more than four inches long & more than three inches wide. Many of the leaves consist of 

 four large leaflets about four or four-&-a-half inches long & two-&-a-half to three inches 

 wide. The midrib divides the two lower ones very unequally lengthwise & the other two 

 less equally than the central leaflet of an ordinary leaf. The denticulations, which are 

 large in proportion to the size of the leaf, are formed like arcs that are quite curved and 

 terminate in very sharp claws. The leaf material is thick & sturdy. The veins & grooves 

 aren't very conspicuous. The surface is smooth & shiny, although a very large number of 

 small furrows that meet & cross one another in different directions makes it look almost 

 like morocco leather. The central leaflet is almost racket-shaped; it's rounded at the tip & 

 narrows almost uniformly toward the petiole which is three to eight lignes long. 



The upright shoots are very big & are oriented obliquely rather than vertically. At 

 the time that the first flowers open, they're only six to twelve lignes long from the origin 

 to the first node. When the fruit is ripe, they're eighteen lignes to three inches long. They 

 divide & subdivide into several branches & pedicels & rarely bear more than ten flower 

 buds. The last of these don't open up at all, or they bloom but don't set fruit. 

 Consequently the yield of this strawberry plant is mediocre. 



The flowers are large. Those on the first nodes of an upright shoot 



