CHAPTER EIGHT 
STRAWBERRIES AND THEIR KIN 
Tus strawberry is a member of the Rosacee 
family. There are four families of trees and plants, 
without which mammals, including man, would 
have found it very difficult to exist on the earth — 
certainly to secure progressive evolution. ‘These 
are the rose, the cereal, the solanum, and the palm 
families. In our temperate zone the rose or Ros- 
aceze family is the most important codperator 
with human kind. It includes in our orchards 
the peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, pears, and 
apples. But this is not all, for when we pass over 
into our gardens we find that the blackberry, the 
raspberry, and even the creeping strawberry are 
all of the same kin. I have had a good deal to do 
with a part of this family in other chapters; I am 
here to consider the strawberry and its near kin — 
that is, the raspberry and the blackberry, including 
the dewberry. Think how much of the brightness 
