134 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Fragaria grandiflora, Ehrhart. {F. Ananas, Miller.) 



Various colder parts of America. Closely allied to F. Chi- 

 loensis. Ananas Strawberry. 



Fragaria lUinoensis, Prince. 



North America. Hovey's Seedling and the Boston kind from 

 this plant. 



Fragaria pratensis, Duchesne. {Fragaria elatior, Ehrhart.) 



In mountain forests of Europe. Cinnamon Strawberry. 

 Hautbois. 



Fragaria vesca, Linne. 



Naturally very widely dispersed over the temperate and colder 

 parts of the northern hemisphere. Wild Wood Strawberry, 

 from this typical form probably some of the other Straw- 

 berries arose. Middle forms and numerous varieties now in 

 culture were produced by hybridisation. These plants, though 

 abounding already in our gardens, are mentioned here, because 

 even the tenderest varieties could be naturalised in our ranges. 

 Any settler, hving near some brook or rivulet, might readily 

 set out some plants, which, with others similarly adapted, 

 would gradually spread with the current. 



Fragaria Virginiana, Miller. 



North America. Scarlet Strawberry. 



Fraxinus Americana, Linn^.* 



The White Ash of North America. A large tree more than 

 80 feet high, which deUghts in humid forests. Trunks have 

 been found 75 feet long without a limb and 4^ feet in dia- 

 meter (Emerson). It is the best of all American Ashes, of 

 comparatively rapid growth. Timber valuable, better resist- 

 ing extreme heat than the common Ash ; largely exported. It 

 assumes a red tint in age. Much valued for its toughness 

 and elasticity, excellent for work subject to sudden shocks 

 and strains, such as the frames of machines, carriage wheels, 

 agricultural implements, hand-picks, billiard cues, fishing- 

 rods, handles, chair rails, shafts, staves, pulley blocks, belaying- 

 pins, and oars, also for furniture, the young branches for mast 

 hoops. Over-old wood not desirable. When once thoroughly 

 seasoned, it does not shrink or swell, and is thus in Virginia 

 preferred for flooring to any native timber (Robb; Simmonds). 

 The inner bark furnishes a yellow dye. The Red Ash (Fraxi- 

 nus pubescens. Lam.), the Green Ash (F. viridis, Mich.), the 



