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in the large-fruited sort should have been in contemplation 
almost as soon as this sort originated. 
The earliest facts concerning the large-fruited hybrid Eng¬ 
lish or American Strawberry (as it has successively been called) 
are very far from well known. The first detailed account of it 
was given by Miller, in 1759, with a good figure. The plant 
seems to have been somewhat widely distributed at the time, 
and as both the Chili and the scarlet, or Virginian, Strawberry 
had been introduced some forty or fifty years, the opinion 
expressed by Duchesne (“ Hist, des Fr.” p. 197) that it is a hybrid 
between the two last named sorts seems to gain much credit. 
The original form, known in England as the old Pine, and in 
France as fraisier ananas , is to be found in gardens to the 
present day, answering perfectly to the elaborate description given 
by Duchesne (“ Hist, des Fr.” pp. 191-194). It is, in fact, inter¬ 
mediate between Fr. chilensis and Fr. virginiana, and the pale 
brownish colour of the fruit is in that respect highly charac¬ 
teristic. 
It was only in the earlier part of the present century that 
skilful horticulturists began to originate named varieties of 
the large-fruited Strawberry, which developed in various direc¬ 
tions the possibilities of the new race. Keen’s, Myatt’s, Rivers’s, 
Turner’s novelties were successively introduced, several of which 
even now hold a prominent place in the list of esteemed varieties ; 
De Jonglie, of Brussels, Jamin, of Bourg la Reine, Gloede, of 
Beauvais, and Moret soon added most excellent contributions to 
the stock of useful kinds of the large Strawberry. 
I will dwell here only on one of Gloede’s seedlings, distributed 
in 1868, and called ananas jperjp&tuel, because to it may be re¬ 
ferred, as to their ancestor, most of the perpetual large-fruited 
Strawberries of the present day. It is not even mentioned in 
Dr. Hogg’s “ Fruit Manual,” but it created some excitement at the 
time of making its appearance in consequence of its giving an 
autumn crop, although it was a scanty one. 
It must be mentioned here that as early as 1856 the question 
of perpetual-bearing large Strawberries had been started in 
America ; not that special varieties, gifted with a special quality, 
were offered for sale there, but in consequence of the opinion 
asserting itself that all large-fruited Strawberries could be made 
perpetual bearers by means of some special tricks in the culti¬ 
vation. 
