Strawberry plants of fourteen varieties were raised from dissected apices of stolon tips and axillary buds excised at a length of less than 0·80 mm. Two different media were used. On one of them 50% of tips from non-heat-treated plants developed roots and of these 54% survived to maturity; on the other medium (White’s augmented with coconut milk and sucrose) only 35% developed roots but 80%of these rooted tips grew to mature plants. Tips excised from heat-treated plants grew more rapidly, and a higher proportion reached maturity, than those grown from untreated plants. The smaller tips (Fragaria vesca and F. virginiana 12–18 months after excision. One variety was freed from yellow edge (virus 2), three varieties from vein chlorosis (virus 4), two from crinkle (virus 3), and two from latent A virus.