tERPElTtrAL STRAWBERRIES 
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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. 68.—Common Alpine Strawbeeey. 
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 
