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years, and the fruit falling and decaying on the bed, 
will produce seedling plants, and of course new varie- 
ties, and these are as likely to be staminate as pistil- 
late sorts. The following is the 
FINALITY ON THE STRAWBERRY.—Wild or culti- 
vated, the strawberry presents, in its varieties, four 
distinct forms or characters of infloresence. 
1st. Those called Pistillate, from the fact that the 
stamens are abortive, and rarely to be found without 
a dissection of the flower. These require extrinsic 
impregnation. 
2d. Those called Staminate, which are perfectly des- 
titute of even the rudiments of pistils, and are neces- 
sarily fruitless. 
3d. Those called Hermaphrodite or perfect, having 
both sets of organs, stamens and pistils, apparently well 
developed. These are not generally good and certain 
bearers, as we should expect them to be. With few 
exceptions they bear poorly, owing to some unob- 
served defect, probably in the pistils.. One-tenth of 
their flowers generally produce perfect and often very 
large berries. 
4th. A rare class—a sort of subdivision of the pre- 
ceding—has not only hermaphrodite flowers, but also 
some on the same truss that are of the pistillate cha- 
racter; and sometimes, in the same plant, a truss will 
be seen on which all the flowers are pistillate. 
Now these four divisions are natural and real; they 
are also founded upon permanent character, so far as 
we have been able to discover, after a most thorough 
investigation, extending through a long series of years, 
during which millions of strawberry blossoms have 
