. 
FIRST STAGE IN GROWTH OF A STRAWBERRY 
After the ovules have been fecundated, the petals drop from the flower, leaving it in the 
condition shown above. 
The seeds, one of which is located at the base of each pistil, 
begin to develop, soon afterward the pollen-bearing stamens wilt and fall off, and the 
pistils begin to shrivel up. Photograph by John Howard Paine. 
the South. Let us see just what net 
result the work of all these breeders 
has produced. If we turn to statistics 
we find that in 1914 the commercial 
shipments of fresh strawberries in the 
United States totaled 14,553 carloads. 
Of these 8,369 carloads came from 
southern States and largely from sec- 
tions in those States to which the 
(Fig. 4.) 
strawberry is not native. The greater 
part of the shipments consist of varieties 
originating in the South as the result of 
definite breeding work, and in the follow- 
ing table is shown the percentage of 
the total acreage represented by each 
variety together with the place of 
origin of most of the varieties. 
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