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It was mentioned in the article that the naming predates cultivated strawberries.
by oniony 10y ago
It was mentioned in the article that the naming predates cultivated strawberries.
- Reason077 10y agoAll I could find in the article was this: If straw was ever used in protecting strawberries, this practice would have been important only in gardening, but before naming the garden berry, whose cultivation is late, people gathered strawberries in the wild. This wording suggests to me that the name came after cultivation? In old english they were apparently known as "Earthberries". Secondly, straw certainly is used in protecting strawberries - and has been for a long time!
- khedoros 10y agoThe sentence you quoted states that the name came before cultivation, which occurred later in time. Basically "Using straw would only happen in gardened berries, but that wasn't done until long after people gathered strawberries (by that name) from the wild".
- Reason077 10y agoMy reading of that sentence gives the opposite meaning to your interpretation! But, it's badly written and perhaps the author meant is different to how it reads.
- rz2k 10y agoHow about the cultivation of "straw"? I mow one meadow by my parents' home once every year or two and wild strawberries and raspberries survive in the undergrowth. In another meadow which I mow three or for times a year only the starwberries remain.