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since the Alpine Strawberries were distributed in gardens, half a 

 dozen or so (including the bush variety) deserve to be enumerated. 

 They belong to our present subject, being all of them perpetual 

 Strawberries. (Fig. 70.) 



Janus. — A fine variety of the Alpine Strawberry was offered 

 by Bruant, of Poitiers, about twenty years ago. It is a strong- 



Tig. 70.— Luproyed Ali-ixe. 



growing sort, with comparatively large fruit, often double-pointed, 

 which particular probably suggested the name of the double-faced 

 god. It is still sometimes met with in cultivation. 



Quatre Saiso?is Bum. — This bears a remarkably elongated 

 fruit, not very delicate in flavour, but of a very bright clear colour, 

 with somewhat tough dry flesh, of indifferent quality, but bearing 



