APPENDIX. _ 99 
These three varieties of flowers are represented by figs. 
1, 2, and 3, page 37. 
Fig. 1 is from an hermaphrodite plant, which blooms 
and impregnates itself. The stamens, marked a, are 
full of a fine pollen, or yellow powder, which falling 
on the end of the unopened calyx of the buds, below 
the flower, or around it, on the pistillate plants, is 
carried by an unseen agency direct to the pistil, im- 
pregnating and setting the fruit. This variety is the 
Karly Scarlet, a continuous bloomer with my culture, 
and the best impregnator for the ever-bearing Hovey 
Seedling I have ever met. 
Fig. 2 is the sterile staminate, or male plant, never 
producing fruit under any circumstances whatever. It 
will be observed the flower is larger and more showy 
than the others. It deceives many an inexperienced 
cultivator with its false promises of fruit. The flower 
of the pure male may be easily known by its large 
anthers and stamens, as marked a, 6, in Fig. 2. 
Fig. 3 is the pistillate or female blossom. It will be- 
observed that there are no stamens around the pistil, as 
b, but nearly every bud will produce a berry if impreg- 
nated by one of the staminate or hermaphrodite plants. 
Of this variety is the Hovey Seedling, which, as far as 
my experience goes, is the best strawberry ever yet 
cultivated, North or South. ; 
Before proceeding to the method of caleaits T will 
give my views of the time of impregnation, ae fully 
satisfied that the generally received opinion that the 
strawberry is impregnated after the petals expand, is 
entirely erroneous. I have long since observed that 
_the first strawberry blossoms never produce fruit. The 
