242 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



than is present on other parts of this plant, that in comparison to the others, appear to 

 have none at all. 



The runners are long & vigorous; they're green bordering on yellow & 

 infrequently tinged with red. Since it puts out as many runners as it does suckers, it 

 proliferates abundantly. 



The upright shoots almost always grow on a slant & lean toward the ground. 

 They're extremely short, one to three inches at most up to the first node. They rarely bear 

 more than ten flowers (generally from four to nine). The pedicels are long & thin & insert 

 into a recess in the calyx. 



The large sections of the calyx are long, narrow, & terminate in very sharp points. 

 The exterior ones often split into two or three. The first flowers on each upright shoot are 

 about nine lignes in diameter & almost always have six or seven evenly placed petals. 

 Consequently there are twelve or fourteen sections in the calyx. The petals are ovoid in 

 shape; they're much narrower at the end than in the middle. The rest of the flowers are six 

 or seven lignes wide & rarely have more than five petals. They're shape is more rounded. 

 The tips of the stamens are small & are supported on long & very slender filaments. The 

 receptacle is small but it grows quite fast, so that the fruit ripens fifteen days sooner than 

 our common strawberries do. 



After the petals have fallen, the small sections of the calyx stay oriented pretty 

 much the same way as they were during the time that the flower opened up, forming a 

 right angle with the pedicel. But the large sections close up almost entirely & remain 

 attached to the fruit until it's ripe. So all the sections, large & small, point in different 

 directions; some remain lying flat on the fruit, others are reflexed onto the pedicel, and 

 others twist around in different directions. 



