THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Red Alpine 

 Strawberry 

 (natural size). 



into France from Mont Cenis by Fougeroux de Bondaroy, in 

 1754 ; but it speedily attained a very important 

 position in horticulture, on account of its valuable 

 quality of producing fruit at a season when all 

 other varieties of Strawberries have long ceased 

 bearing. The fruit has nearly the same appear- 

 ance and flavour as that of the Wood Strawberry, 

 but is generally larger, longer, and more pointed 

 in shape. The seed also is perceptibly larger and 

 longer. 



Culture. — As this Strawberry reproduces itself 

 exactly in every respect from seed, many gardeners 

 are in the habit of raising it in this way instead of 

 from runners, and they generally agree in the opinion 

 that plants raised from seed are more vigorous and 

 more productive than the others. In order to ensure a very pro- 

 longed and very abundant 

 supply late in autumn, it 

 is a good plan to rest the 

 plants which are intended 

 to bear at that time, by 

 not allowing them to 

 flower in spring, or at 

 least by discontinuing to 

 gather the fruit at an 

 early period, and by 

 cutting off the flowering 

 stems and the runners, but 

 continuing to water the 

 plants all the time. Alpine 

 Strawberries, when pro- 

 perly taken care of, ought 

 to yield almost as abun- 

 dantly in September as 

 in spring. The greatest 

 difficulty in their culture 

 is to make them fruit 

 plentifully in July and 

 August. 



White Alpine Straw- 

 berry. — There are nume- 

 rous varieties of Alpine 

 Strawberry. Gne of the 

 oldest known is the White- 

 fruited kind, which difl"ers 



from the ordinary kind Alpine Belle de Meaux Strawberry. 



