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us, that the best staminates will only produce a part 
of a fair crop of fruit, while the pistillate varieties 
will produce no perfect fruit at all, without being 
impregnated by some staminates in the vicinity ; but 
when thus impregnated, the pistillates produce an 
abundance of the finest fruit. 
The interesting and accurate experiment of Mr. 
Huntsman, in the Appendix, C, sets this matter in a 
very clear light. 
Some of the staminates of recent introduction, like 
Walker’s Seedling and Longworth’s Prolific, are so 
very desirable, that every cultivator should have one 
or both; it is, therefore, only important to notice the 
presence of the staminates in every collection of va- 
rieties, keep them distinct, and no sacrifice is required 
to conform to this theory, which seems to be pretty 
universally established. Mr. Longworth’s article in 
the Appendix, D, gives an interesting account of its 
discovery. 
Another series of plants are called Hermaphrodite— 
like Longworth’s Prolific—because both stamens and 
pistils are in a greater or less extent developed, and 
they are represented to bear well, being alone. 
The great war that has raged so fiercely on the bor- 
ders of the strawberry kingdom during the past year 
or two, has been on the point, whether staminates ever 
change to pistillates, or wice versé. For many years 
