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fected. A portion of the pollen which still adheres to the bee, 

 is carried to those x)lants which are deficient in stamens, and 

 hence, also in pollen, when at once the same 

 fertilization takes place as it did in the for- 

 mer case. The reader will see, were it not 

 for the bee and the stamens of the perfect 

 blossoms of the staminate berries, the pistil- 

 late berries wonld be barren, and would not 

 produce under any circumstances. Such vari- 

 eties often fail to produce fair berries for want 

 of a sufficient number of perfect flowering varieties near them. 

 When they are planted four to one, the fertilization will be com- 

 plete, and an abundant crop of perfect berries will be produced. 

 The question will be asked, "why plant pistillate kinds at all?" 

 We answer, "many of the pistillate berries are the most product- 

 ive and valuable varieties when properly fertilized, and are 

 among the most profitable." 



FIGUEE 4. 



THE EFFECTS OF CROSS - FERTILIZATION. 



FIGUKE 5. 



The Farvi and Garden was the first agricultural paper to give 

 prominence to the important effects of cross-fertilization of straw- 

 berries. In January, 1884, our gifted contributor, Mr. J. T. 

 Lovett, first brought the subject prominently 

 to the notice of the horticultural public. The 

 subject is now of much interest to all fruit 

 growers. Mr. Fuller, some years ago, al-|| 

 luded to the fact that there was a variation of 

 berries where there was a cross-fertilization, 

 but it remained for Mr. Lovett to fully dem- 

 onstrate the influence of varieties on each 

 other when planted together, as he did fully, first in the Farm 

 and Garden of last year. Many deny there is any infiueuce at 

 all exerted by poUenization, and it was a fertile subject of dis- 

 cussion at the recent meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horti- 

 cultural Society at New Orleans. Wm. Parry, of Parry, N. J, , 

 claims he has observed the effects of cross-fertilization fully 

 marked in pears, and many others claim the same of other fruits. 

 There are also very many who deny any such effects, and attrib- 

 ute all the changes noticed to difference in cultivation. We 

 find, by intercourse with many practical strawberry growers, 

 and from reports of the various horticultural societies we re- 



