252 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XVII. Slender STRA WBERRY PLANT with somewhat green flower & fruit. 

 Green STRA WBERRY PLANT Du Ch. 



Green STRAWBKRRY PLANT. (PL IX.) 



This Strawberry plant has been cultivated for a long time in England & 

 recently has become known in this country. It has great vitality, puts out many suckers & 

 even more runners. Its upright shoots, runners, leafstalks, & all other parts are extremely 

 slender. They have hair that's quite long but not very thick. 



Its leaves are much less broad than those of the common cultivated strawberry 

 plant. The central leaflets on the largest of them are only thirty-two or thirty -three lignes 

 long & two inches wide. The lateral leaflets are three or four lignes less in each 

 dimension. They're divided lengthwise by their midrib into two sections less unequal than 

 those of other strawberry plants. But appendages or rudimentary leaflets are as common 

 on the leafstalks of this strawberry plant as they are rare on other strawberry plants. The 

 denticulation is large, deep, & very sharp. The outside of the leaf is whitish-green & 

 accented with very prominent veins. The inside is a slightly deeper green than in the 

 common strawberry plant, & the furrows corresponding to the veins are extremely deep. 

 The leaflets inside their buds are folded like fans before they emerge, and they retain the 

 pattern of these folds longer & more distinctly than do those of any other strawberry 

 plant. The leaves and their stalks, the upright shoots, runners, &c. are covered with quite 

 thick hair. 



The upright shoots, their branches, & pedicels are very long & bear eight to 

 fifteen flower buds. The buds are long & slender. The flowers on the first nodes are nine 

 or ten lignes in diameter. The inside sections 



