164 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
‘It was within a week of the close of July 
last year when I came upon a large bed of 
these berries. I was on a flower quest that 
hot and sultry day, and I confess that the 
last thing I expected to be offered was straw- 
berries. But I was offered some, right from 
the plants, and ate thereof with a satisfac- 
tion that was a satisfaction. 
“Then I began asking many questions; I 
ascertained, first of all, that these long rows 
of very flourishing strawberry plants, with a 
considerable amount of ripe and ripening 
fruit on them, were all seedlings. The seed 
had been picked in Switzerland by the grower, 
from plants of the ‘Quatre Saisons’ type. 
This is the small strawberry that is so abun- 
dant in Paris, where it is no uncommon 
sight to see the little hand-carts of street 
vendors piled high with the much admired 
fruit. It is simply one of the Alpine varie- 
ties bred up in size and general perfection. 
“T found also that from this patch of 
‘Four Seasons’ the family had been kept fully 
supplied with fruit all through July — the 
Alpines coming in when the ordinary garden 
berries gave out. The fruit, which is a sort 
of glorified edition of the American wild 
