xiv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FIGURE PAGE 



17. A " mammoth " berry ; it weighed 4| ounces. (From 



catalog of A. T. Goldsborough, Washington, 

 D.C.) 166 



18. Banana, introduced in 1870 168 



19. The long root stalk of a very old plant . . . 197 



20. Proliferous strawberry. (From Meehan's Monthly, 



1894, p. 37) 199 



21. An abnormal structural form. (From Rept. Cuba 



Exp. Station, 1905-1909, p. 145) . . . .200 



22. A freak strawberry, with the exposed seed carpels 



covered with pulp, like a blackberry. (From 

 Meehan's Monthly, 1902, p. 12) . . . . 201 



23. A staminate blossom, showing the numerous yellow 



anthers, which contain the pollen, sxirrounding 



the cone of green pistils 202 



24. Anthers clipped off and exposed to the sun, to secure 



pollen 204 



25. Pollinating with a camel's-hair brush. (From L. H. 



Bailey, Ithaca, New York) 205 



26. Matthew Crawford, for nearly fifty years the foremost 



North American propagator of the strawberry . 220 



