PERPETUAL STRAWBERRIES. 



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that all the seedlings raised from it from the time of its intro- 

 duction down to our time, although they often showed some 

 important variation in the size and colour of the fruit, never 

 departed from the ever-bearing character of the original plant. 



Varieties op the Alpine Strawberry. 

 Propagation by seed is much oftener resorted to in the case 

 of the Alpine Strawberry than with any variety of the large- 

 fruited kind ; and although a particular strain is seldom repro- 

 duced absolutely true except by the use of runners, sowing is so 



Fig. G9. — Bush Alpine Strawberry. 



cheap, so easy, and so rapid a way of propagation that most 

 gardeners commonly have recourse to it. There is indeed a case 

 in which there is no alternative to the increase from seed, and 

 that is with the Bush Alpine or Gaillon Strawberry, which emits 

 no runners. (Fig. 69.) 



The original plant was obtained at Gaillon (Eure) by 

 M. Labaube in 1811 ("J. fr. Art. fr. des Alpes"). Some years 

 later (about 1818) M. Morel de Yinde originated the white-fruited 

 bush variety. Both rapidly became popular, and entirely super- 

 seded the old Bush Strawberry for edgings and beds in small 

 gardens. They are reproduced true from seed as far as the absence 

 of runners goes, some variation occurring only in the colour 

 of the fruit. 



Of the numberless improved varieties which have originated 



