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inspired experimental work in pollination, and after a decade of discussion 

 from 1840 to 1850 in the press and in all American pomological societies, 

 it was established that some varieties of strawberries were hermaphrodites 

 and others unisexual, and that pistillate sorts must be cross-pollinated to 

 bear fruit. With this knowledge, strawberry growing passed the trouble- 

 some obstacle of unproductiveness from self-sterility and the industry was 

 given another forward impetus. 



The Hovey was the first notable variety in the present race of large- 

 fruited strawberries in America, and perhaps the brief account of its intro- 

 duction and its influence on strawberry culture in the country may be put 

 down as the last important landmark needful in this sketch of the straw- 

 berry in North America. It remains now to show the present magnitude 

 of strawberry growing in the United States. Table 4 gives this information. 



Table 4. — Acreage, Yield and Value of Strawberries in the United States in 1919, by Divisions 



AND States 



Division and State 



Acreage 



Yield 

 (in quarts) 



Value 



United States 



Geographic Divisions: 



New England 



Middle Atlantic. . . . 

 East North Central. 

 West North Central 



South Atlantic 



East South Central. 

 West South Central. 



Mountain 



Pacific 



New England: 



Maine 



New Hampshire .... 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



Middle Atlantic: 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



East North Central: 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Michigan 



Wisconsin 



24 



"9.395 



3.353 

 13.909 

 24.258 

 18,147 

 18,058 

 16,038 

 13.136 



1.623 

 10,873 



555 

 366 



275 



1. 431 



90 



636 



4,872 

 5.029 

 4,008 



4.172 

 3.401 



4.985 

 8,048 

 3.652 



176,931.550 



6,319.419 

 24.065,552 

 36,133,472 

 26 , 048 , 603 

 23.497.227 

 19,673,040 

 1 7 , 690 , 967 



2,158.654 

 21,344,616 



893.740 

 489.774 

 428.335 

 3. 151. 371 

 116,646 



1.239.553 



8,579.563 

 8,301,893 

 7,184,096 



7.165.957 

 4,277,646 

 6,901 ,199 



12,585.543 

 5.203,127 



$36,004,245 



$1,562,569 

 5,225,366 

 6,730,264 

 5.441.459 

 4.653.123 

 3,730,408 

 3,812,882 

 493.290 

 4.354.884 



$223,438 



I 17. 545 

 107,086 

 787,844 

 29,162 

 297.494 



1.973.304 

 1,743,400 

 I , 508 , 662 



I. 361. 527 



855.538 



I. 311. 235 



2 , 265 , 400 



936.564 



