CHAPTER XV 
Wuat Is tHE AMERICAN STRAWBERRY? 
THE strawberry has only received much 
attention during the last seventy-five or one 
hundred years. The first variety of which 
we have any account is the Fressant, which 
dates from 1660. There are but few wild 
species of strawberries, and only some few of 
these ten or twelve species have been brought 
into cultivation. 
The European common wild strawberry 
includes both the Annual and Monthly 
Alpines, as well as the White and Red Wood 
strawberries. ‘The former are indigenous to 
North America, being found quite plenti- 
fully from the east northern states, also 
westward to the Rocky Mountains, where 
they grow in the cooler regions and on the 
more elevated places. These Alpines do 
not produce runners to any extent, but grow 
in stools or clumps. The fruit produced 
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