. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 114 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 20, 1913. NECTAR-PRODUCING PLANTS AND THEIR POLLEN. By George Hayes, Beeston, Notts. (Continued from page 82.) THE STEAWBEBRY [Fragarui vesca). No. 23. Nat. Ordeb. Rosaceje. In its wild state the strawberry is a. denizen of the hedgebanks and copses. It flowers during April and May, and is always a pleasing sight whether we regard its snow-white blossoms with their golden centres, the exquisite foliage, or the ruddy fruit set amongst its dark 7n„„ green leaves. .JH JC^ The petals are five ^_^ in number,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 114 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 20, 1913. NECTAR-PRODUCING PLANTS AND THEIR POLLEN. By George Hayes, Beeston, Notts. (Continued from page 82.) THE STEAWBEBRY [Fragarui vesca). No. 23. Nat. Ordeb. Rosaceje. In its wild state the strawberry is a. denizen of the hedgebanks and copses. It flowers during April and May, and is always a pleasing sight whether we regard its snow-white blossoms with their golden centres, the exquisite foliage, or the ruddy fruit set amongst its dark 7n„„ green leaves. .JH JC^ The petals are five ^_^ in number, very fra- i (^) gile; the calyx is cleft into ten divi- « /^^ sions; the stamens 'C;-**'' are very numerous, and form a golden j ^^ ball in the centre of ^^ the flower; the fruit is fleshy and succu- 4, (^O lent, varying from a white to a bright red. The leaves, stems, &c., are all thickly coated with hair. The strawberry leaf graces the coronets of nobility, because of its beauiifiil form ; and the Gothic stone c a r vers used it largely in ormenta- tion. In the Chapiter House at Southwell Cathedral there is JjiHoney. From HoneY 8 10 some exquisite work of this description. The generic name Fragaria, from frana, have the same root asfragrans, referring to the perfume of the fruit, that it is fragrant, whilst from "vesca" we learn that it is edible. The common name strawberry is de- rived from the streair, straw, and herie, berry; perhaps from the resem- blance of the runners of the plant to straw. It has also been suggested as coming from the straying propensity of these runners "to strew," or from the little straw coloured seeds situated on the red, juicy receptacle we so much like. Others attribute its derivation to the fruit lying strewn on the ground, or to the custom of putting straw between the plants to keep the berries off the ground. Some also think that its derivation was from none of these, but from the custom of selling wild strawb
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