“…These include resistance to angular leafspot (Xanthomonas fragaria) and powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca macularis) leaf diseases (Evans, 1982c;Kantor, 1984;Maas et al, 1995;Trajkovski, 1993), cold hardiness (Kantor, 1984;Reed, 1966), large plants more vigorous than octoploid species (Reed, 1966), unique, highly aromatic flavor (Kantor, 1984;Reed, 1966), upright flower stalks that hold fruit above the canopy (Evans, 1982a;Kantor, 1984) and uniform ripening (Reed, 1966). Evans (1977) described a means of taking F. moschata to the synthetic octoploid level by first crossing it with a diploid species to create a tetraploid.…”