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or hermaphrodite plant, and this is entirely contrary to Mr. Princess 

 theory. In my experience everywhere large numbers of lilossoms give 

 large numbers of small fruits ; and on the contrary those of few blossoms, 

 like Hovey's seedlings, produce large fruits. Mr. Longworth once said 

 here that Hovey seedlings were not known at Cincinnati, that is, of the 

 same kind that is known here. 



Mr. Prince. — My father published the whole matter about the sexes of 

 strawberries twenty-five years ago. The European heart hay produces 

 staminate and pistillate flowers. I have strawberry beds that were white 

 with blossoms that have not a single berry — all barren. The strawbei-ries 

 that come from England with the highest sounding names are worthless 

 here, because they have no female plants. 



R. Gr. Pardee. — All this matter is the old battle of horticulturists, and 

 it is not wonderful that some of them are opinionated. 



Dr. Waterbury. — I call attention that Dr. Ward stated that his little 

 boy could tell in a moment the different kinds of blossoms, and which 

 would prove prolific of fruit and which barren. This is just the sort of 

 information that I contend for giving children in common schools, that is, 

 agricultural education. 



Dr. Ward, in answer to a question of T. W. Field, named the following 

 four varieties in their order as likely to prove most profitable to the mar- 

 ket gardener : Wilson's Seedling, Iowa strawberry, Early Scarlet, Virginia 

 Scarlet or Scotch Runner, and Longworth's Prolific. These are what are 

 called hermaphrodite, or staminates, and they are all great producers, and 

 more so than any pistillates, or any others that I ever grew. 



Mr. Prince. — With me the Iowa does not bear one half a fair crop. 

 Here is one of my seedlings that is an exception to all rules. Every blos- 

 som produces a berry, and all ripen at once. I call it the Eclipse. The 

 Ladies' Pine, originated in Canada, is a very delicate and peculiar flavored 

 berry. 



T. W. Field said that upon two beds of strawberries, growing side by 

 side on his place in Brooklyn, he picked as many quarts of Hovey's Seed- 

 lings as three hired women picked of the common early Scarlet, and while 

 the latter sold at twenty cents a quart, hulls off", the Hovey's sold at fifty 

 cents, hulls on, and that was about the usual diflFerence in this market 

 between common and sviperior fruit. 



Andrew S. Fuller, of Brooklyn, exhibited two very promising seedlings, 

 selected from a great number that he has grown. We think one of them 

 promises well as a market berry. 



The strawberries of Mr. Lawton were admired for their great size and 

 for their taste, for he gave them all to the Club. 



Mr. Hite, of Morrisania, an amateur horticulturist, much and justly 

 praised for his skill, industry and joyous culture of a garden, exhibited 

 Peabody & Longworth's Prolific, of size superior to all. He sells them 

 at one dollar a quart, while good berries are now here in market at three 

 cents a basket. 



