APPENDIX. 
THE STRAWBERRY. 
«TRACT FROM THE REPORT OF NICHOLAS LONGWORTH TO THE 
CINCINNATI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
T REGRET that the committee on the character of the 
strawberry plant have not yet been able to make up 
a unanimous report. It arises from a failure of the 
crop with some members of the committee, and from a 
conviction with our European gardeners, that all va- 
rieties were perfect in both organs, in Hurope; and 
they are slow to believe the contrary. This, I am 
positive, is not the fact in England. In some soils and 
some climates, and in favorable seasons, such stami- 
nate plants as are partially perfect in the female organs 
yield a larger crop than usual; but can never be made 
to bear a full crop. But in raising from seed, fully 
one half will in general be staminate plants, and not 
one in fifty of them bear even a single fruit. Those 
that do bear, produce many defective berries. I 
do not believe that any soil, climate, or season, can 
make the pistillate plant bear singly; and it is the 
only one worthy of cultivation for a crop. Of this, 
and of the staminate and pistillate character of the 
plant in England, we have positive evidence from their 
great horticulturist, Keen himself. In the year 1809, 
(if my memory serves me as to date,) Keen discovered 
that a new seedling of his, planted by itself, did not 
swell the fruit. On a careful examination of the blos- 
som, it struck him that it might be owing to a defect 
in the male organs. He then placed some staminate 
blossoms in a vial of water, and suspended them in 
the bed. He found the fruit in the vicinity to swell 
