SC - Strawberries

[Paul Shore]

On 19 Jun 97 at 10:24, Christina M. Krupp wrote:

> Before contact with the New World, the European Strawberry was a tiny, 
> tasty, seedy fruit, not much bigger than our wild strawberries or field 
> strawberries -- the ones that are about a third to a half an inch in 
> diameter. 

Would this be the 'alpine' strawberry I see advertised in the seed catalogs?  
The are often advertised for ornamental use.  As I understand, the alpine 
strawberry is not spread by runners like our modern strawberry.


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