. The book of the garden. Gardening. THE STRAWBERRY. 591 remarkable for the abundance of their produce, although the fruit individually is small, for a pecu- liarity of flavour, and for continuing to bear till killedby the frost. Mr Thompson justly observes : " The best of these are the Red and White wood, and the Bed and White alpine. The latter are apt to degenerate, and assume the characters of the Wood ; The Cisal- pine or Napoleon, spoken highly of by Mr Cobbett in his " English Gardener," is merely the Red alpine under another name. Red alpine.—Fruit conical
. The book of the garden. Gardening. THE STRAWBERRY. 591 remarkable for the abundance of their produce, although the fruit individually is small, for a pecu- liarity of flavour, and for continuing to bear till killedby the frost. Mr Thompson justly observes : " The best of these are the Red and White wood, and the Bed and White alpine. The latter are apt to degenerate, and assume the characters of the Wood ; The Cisal- pine or Napoleon, spoken highly of by Mr Cobbett in his " English Gardener," is merely the Red alpine under another name. Red alpine.—Fruit conical and red; the larg- est of its class; an abundant bearer, and ex- ceedingly high flavoured. Like all of this class, they prefer a pretty strong soil, and will pros- per in a soil less deep than the larger-sized strawberries in former classes. Synonyms— Scarlet alpine, Prolific alpine, with a long list of French synonyms, in which country, and over the most of the continent of Europe, this class is very popular ; for it is comparatively only within these last few years that our large English strawberries were known or cultivated there. White alpine.—Similar in character, except in colour, and being sometimes, when large, more compressed at the ends than the last, and like all the class continuing to bear fruit from June to November. Red wood.—Fruit roundish, otherwise very similar to the first, only bearing fruit, however, during June and July. White wood.—Similar in all respects to the last, differing only in colour. Red bush alpine, or Russian.—Fruit roundish ovate; in size and colour resembling the Red alpine, only distinguished, and that prominently, by the plants growing like small bushes, send- ing out no runners, and carrying the fruit upon strongish upright fruit-stalks, the fruit appear- ing over the leaves, and not lying prostrate like the Alpines. White bush alpine.—In all respects resembling the last, differing only in colour. Several varieties of straw
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