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repay for the production on a large scale. Learn well, 
by observation, all the habits and tendencies of the 
strawberry in this regard, and we think the thing can 
then be easily accomplished. 
SEXUAL CHARACTER. 
We now come to the great battle-ground of the 
giants, but will not enter the lists, if we may be per- 
mitted to quietly state a few things as our opinion, 
without intending to reflect upon, or having even re- 
mote reference to, any persons. It is very easy to see 
the manner in which some have been led into error, 
viz., the mixture, well-nigh universal, of different 
kinds of strawberries—an error productive of untold 
injury to successful cultivation. We have never 
seen two kinds of strawberry that might safely run 
in the same bed. On no account suffer it. The 
poorest kind will multiply its runners the most ra- 
pidly, and drive the well-bearing plants from the 
bed; particularly is this the case, where that poor 
kind is a staminate. We think the direction given 
by the late Mr. Downing and others, to place the 
staminates on each end of the same bed, with the 
pistillates in the centre, an unfortunate one, for the 
beds and the plants are usually very soon destroyed in 
