Wild Strawberries.
A Garden Corner.
JN MANY PARTS of England this perennial creeping plant, Frageria vesea, is quite common, and conspicuous, on account of its shining red fruits, which are quite edible, though not very luscious. It is quite worth a place on the rock garden, being a very free groAver, sending out long tendrils to cover a good area or form into a tangled mass. Of the many pretty things making famous the woodland charms of Old England, the Avild or alpine straAvberry deserves a place with the best. Its Avhite flowers in early spring are also very noticeable; and, unlike the garden kind, birds and insect pests pretty well leave it alone. T.D.L.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 303, 22 December 1931, Page 9
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115Wild Strawberries. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 303, 22 December 1931, Page 9
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