43 SMALL FRUIT CULTURIST. 



The size of these is also variable ; sometimes they are 



Fig. 15. PISTILLATE FLOWER ENLARGED. 



considerably larger than those shown as of natural size. 



The flowers of Fragaria grand (flora are larger than 

 those of other species, and 

 sometimes they have seven pe- 

 tals, as shown in figure 16, 

 while five is the usual number. 



Another variation from the 

 natural form, although very 

 rarely seen, is that of flowers 

 without any pistils. These-, 

 of course, produce no fruit, 

 and they are nothing more nor 

 less than degenerated or de- 

 formed specimens, and are not 

 worthy of notice further than 

 to show the peculiar changes F 

 that sometimes occur in cultivated plants. 



The foregoing are the principal forms noticed in both 



