wood-strawberry

Knight did not succeed in crossing the European wood-strawberry with the American Scarlet or with the Hautbois.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

Duchesne raised a single-leaved variety of the European {353} wood-strawberry, which Linnæus doubtfully raised to the rank of a species.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

The common wood-strawberry bears leaves smaller, more sharply notched, and more wrinkled in appearance, than any of the cultivated species.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836

The wood-strawberry is seldom larger than a horse-bean, of a brilliant red, and the flesh whiter than that of any cultivated species; the flavour is remarkably clear and full -- a pleasant subacid, with more of the peculiar strawberry perfume in the taste than any other.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836

The finest of these native British species is the wood-strawberry (_Fragaria vesca_), which is common everywhere; the second, the hautboy (_F. elatior_), is much less frequently found, and is by Hooker supposed to be scarcely indigenous; and the third, the one-leaved strawberry (_F. monophylla_), is unknown to me, and only named by some writers as a species.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836

(the high flavoured wood-strawberry, which is so fine with sugar and cream,) _4d. _ for a full quart, the stocks being picked off.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 Various