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CINCINNATI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



(continued from page 332.) 



Cincinnati, Saturday, June 20. 

 Vice President Stoms in the chair. 



Minutes read and amended by adding to the list of fruit exhibited 

 last week the following Strawberries, viz : Ilovey's Seedling, by Mr. 

 E. Johnson, and Mr. TV. H. Pye the same ; Mr. Cart the Superior 

 and Prolific. 



Further time was given for the reports of the special committees 

 on the subjects of the City Park and Market restrictions, and the 

 committees continued. 



Mr. N. Gregory was elected to membership. 



The tables of the Societv's Hall were laden with some of the 

 most luscious fruits that ever blushed outside of Eden. A large 

 number of persons were in attendance, including several ladies, who 

 seemed to be delighted spectators of the horticultural beauties spread 

 before them. 



Mr. Cary made some interesting remarks on the fertilization of 

 the pistillate Strawberries in reference to Mr. Longworth's com- 

 munication of last week. He recommended deep culture as best for 

 the Strawberry, stating that he had traced their roots to a depth of 

 eighteen inches ; and that with deep culture, drouth would never 

 seriously injure the Strawberry crop. 



Mr. Graham alluded to an interesting and important fact observ- 

 able in the hermaphrodite Strawberry — {. e., that the perfect and 

 well-developed berries of this class all show a line of junction in 

 their form as of two berries united, signifying, as he thought, the 

 sexual combination of its peculiar hermaphrodite character. 



And as a fact most conclusive of the sexual features and functions 

 of the staminate and pistillate plants, Mr. Graham further stated 

 that he had cultivated the plants of McAvoj's Superior for three 

 years, all pistillates and no staminates, and they had not yielded him 

 one single berry, but remained perfectly sterile. Mr. Stoms cor- 

 roborated Mr. Gary's views on the fertilization of the Prolific, 

 and thought Mr. Longworth's theory of the fertilization of the 

 Superior not well founded. 



