Strawberry

strawberry the fruit of plants of the genus Fragaria, is a symbol of the Virgin Mary and also of summer and of the delights of summer fruit. As Andrew Boorde (1542, also ed. Furnivall, 1870) put it: ‘Rawe crayme undecocted, eaten with strawberys or hurtes [whortleberry, bilberry, etc.] is a rural mannes banket.’