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 of 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. 69. —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 Vinde 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 
