254 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



is planted in a good exposure & not in warm soil. A bell-glass or frame helps it to ripen, 

 improves it, & makes it tender & delicious. 



It has a very pleasant flavor & fragrance depending on how ripe it is. 



The seeds aren't very numerous because most of the ovaries have aborted. They're 

 situated in recesses almost as deep as those of the scarlet strawberry. 



The fruits ripen almost all at once which greatly reduces the time available to 

 harvest them. But this is a small drawback; it's not unique to this strawberry plant and it 

 doesn't make it any less worthy of being more widely cultivated. In soil & during seasons 

 that are cold, it's susceptible to mildew, a disease that sometimes spreads as far as the 

 fruit & gives it an unpleasant moldy taste. 



In M. du Chesne's fine strawberry plant collection, there are three other green 

 strawberry plants that seem to me to be superior to this one in the quality of their fruit & 

 in their increased ability to ripen completely. One of the three is remarkable on account 

 of its leaves, a large number of which consist of five or six leaflets. M. du Chesne 

 suspects that the hautbois originated from the green strawberry plant. An eminent 

 gardener assured me that he observed that the latter originated from the raspberry- 

 strawberry plant. 



CULTIVA TION. 



I. The Strawberry Plant is propagated by seed planting, detached offshoots, 



& by new plants produced by runners. 



1°. The seeds should be collected from the best-looking & most shapely 

 strawberries that are fully or even overripe & that are dry at the base. They can be sown 

 from March until the beginning of August. (If they're sown any later, most of the seeds 

 only come up after the winter is over, otherwise the seedlings wouldn't be strong enough 



