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JOURNAL OP THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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- 
Fig. 70.— Lsipeoyed Alpine. 
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 Saisons Duru .—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 
