100 APPENDIX. 
ticulturists as to the possibility of strawberries chang- 
ing their sexual character by cultivation. Without 
taking part in the controversy, I must state that I 
would as soon think of high feed turning a cow to a 
bull, as: to change the pistillate character of Hovey’s 
Seedling by any method of cultivation. I have culti- 
vated the strawberry under every aspect; with high 
manuring, and without manure; in new lands, and on 
old lands; have had the vines stand from 12 to 18 
inches high, and in meek submission to hug the 
ground; yet I have never found the least change in the 
blossom. A perfect pistillate or staminate flower, first 
blooming so from seed, will never bloom any other 
way. Cultivators are often deceived about their plants, 
from the fact that they frequently find varieties in the 
beds which they did not plant; but these spring from 
seed. The strawberry springs from seed with astonish- 
ing rapidity. Since my beds were started, the whole 
country around me is covered with strawberry-plants 
from the seed dropped by birds. These I find running 
into all varieties—pistillate, staminate, and hermaphro- 
dite—most of them worthless, but some with good fruit. 
The proper time for transplanting the strawberry at 
the South, is as soon in the fall as the weather is cool 
and moist enough. Here, this may be continued until 
spring. Plants are easily transported great distances 
in the winter. I have sent them 2,000 miles with safe- 
ty. It will be observed by the diagram, that I plant 
the staminate every cighth row. Some cultivators mix 
in the rows; but I prefer to keep them separate and 
distinct, as they are more easily distinguished, and kept 
better in their places. 
