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SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE 



Fourcroya Cubensis, Haworth. 



West India and continental tropical America. A smaller 

 species than the following, but equally utilised for fibre and 

 impenetrable hedges. F. flavo-viridis (Hooker), from Mexico, 

 is still smaller. 



Fourcroya gigantea, Yentenat. 



Central America. With species of Yucca, Agave, Dracaena, 

 Cordjline, Phormium, Doryanthes and this and a few other 

 Fourcroyas, we have gigantic liliaceous plants available indus- 

 trially for fibre. Frost injures the leaves of this species. 

 Scaj^e up to 30 feet high. 



Fourcroya longaeva, Karw. and Zucc. 



High mountains of Guatemala and Mexico, at an elevation 

 of about 10,000 feet. One of the most gigantic and magnifi- 

 cent of all liliaceous or amaryllideous plants, in volumen only 

 surpassed by Dracaena Draco, the Dragon-tree of the Canary 

 Islands. This is the only known higli-stemmed species, the 

 trunk attaining a height of 50 feet, and huge panicle of 

 flowers 40 feet more. It dies, like many allied plants, after 

 flowering. The species is recorded here as a fibre-plant, 

 but with us would mainly or solely be kept for its ornamental 

 gi-andeiu'. 



Fragaria Chiloensis, Aiton. 



In various of the colder parts both of North and South 

 America. Chili-Strawberry. 



Fragaria collina, Ehrhart. 



In various parts of Europe. Hill-Strawberry. 



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



Yarious colder parts of America. Closely allied to F. 

 Chiloensis. Ananas- Strawberry. 



Fragaria Illinoensis, 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 ^videly dispersed over the temperate and 

 colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Wild Wood Straw- 

 berry. From this typical form probably some of the other 

 Strawberries arose. Middle forms and numerous varieties 

 now in culture were produced by hybridisation. These 

 plants, though abounding already in our gardens, are men- 

 tioned here, because even the tenderest varieties could be 



