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whereas seeds of the Carolina strawberry plant have produced strawberry plants that 

 differ greatly in their flowers, their fruit, & in all the other parts of the plant. 



XI V . Rough STRA WBERR Y PLANT with female flower and musk-scented purple-colored fruit. 

 Female hautbois. (PL VIII.) 

 Musk-scented STRAWBERRY PLANT. Hautbois. DuCk 



Gardeners mistakenly use the name of this strawberry plant to denote strawberry 

 plants that have degenerated and have fruit that is big but flavorless or that has an 

 unpleasant taste. It's a mistake to believe that strawberry plants change as a result of 

 cultivation & degenerate into the hautbois. The hautbois is a well-defined species or line 

 that propagates itself true to form via runners & seeds. It retains its unique features that 

 clearly distinguish it from other strawberry plants. If it's cultivated so little that most 

 gardeners don't know of it other than by name, it's more likely due to its sterility for 

 which they don't know the cure than to the quality of its fruit. Under other names that 

 shield it from popular prejudice, it's respected & carefully cultivated in some gardens. 



Its vegetation, attributable to the quantity of its offshoots & their leaves, is fuller 

 than that of any other strawberry plant, except for the strawberry plant without runners. 

 Its upright shoots, runners, & its leafstalks are much longer & thicker than those of the 

 common cultivated strawberry plant & have thicker & rougher hair. 



The leaves, on stalks seven to eight inches long, are much larger than those of the 

 common strawberry plant, & the leaflets are longer in proportion to their width. The 

 middle one is sometimes more than four inches long by three inches nine lignes wide. It 

 gets much narrower or contracted at the ends, 



