ALPINE STRAWBERRIES 165 
strawberry, has the same concentrated 
sweetness, but more of it. Being different 
from the ordinary cultivated strawberry, it 
has the advantage of coming to the table 
with a note of freshness — inaugurating a 
little season of its own rather than extend- 
ing a season already, perhaps, beginning to 
pall on the appetite. 
‘The plants, which run about eight inches 
high, began to bear last year on the 23d of 
June, and were picked for the table every 
day for four weeks. So that, if they are not 
strawberries of ‘four seasons’ literally, they 
have an unusually long fruiting period. 
They are very prolific, and very hardy. In 
short, they seem to have everything to recom- 
mend them to the average home garden, 
with nothing to be said adversely. 
“This strawberry is grown in somewhat 
lighter soil than the ordinary kind. Plenty 
of manure is used when the plants are first 
set out, and then no more until a new bed is 
made. The plants fruit the first year, but 
much better the second. They are good for 
three years. By setting out runners every 
year, after the first, a complete succession 
of prime bearing plants is insured. 
