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culture was the ' Fressant ' Strawberry. It used to be raised in 

 the south of Paris, around La Ville du Bois and Villebousin. 

 The market gardeners at Montreuil, who were then as now 

 amongst the most skilled and enterprising in their trade, went 

 to these places in order to purchase fresh plants, which they 

 fruited in their gardens for some years, constantly introducing 

 fresh supplies of young plants from the places where they were 

 reputed to grow best and cheapest. The introduction of the 

 Alpine Strawberry put an end to the practice. 



The Alpine Strawberry. 

 This sort, which is generally considered to be a mere local 

 variety of Fragaria vesca (although some botanists of note, as 



Fig. 08.— Common Alpixe Strawberry. 



Duchesne himself and Persoon, held it at one time to be a distinct 

 species], is found wild at various places in the European Alps. 



The only difference noticeable between the Alpine and the 

 common wood Strawberry consists in the fact that the latter 



