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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 342

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. There areperhaps two dozen plants, and, strange to say,they never seem to increase in numbers. Toan ordinary observer they resemble the wood-strawberry plants. However, the flower ismore beautiful, the margin of each petal beingfinely toothed, instead of entire as is the casewith field and… … WHITE STRAWBERRIES. (Photographed from specimens sent by Miss Knowles.) when fully ripe possesses a delicious flavor,which somewhat resembles that of the pine-apple. I have transplanted a few of these queerplants in a waste corner of the garden wherethe soil is rich, and they have increased…

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