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different in appearance to the pistils, being longer, and at the end of each 

 is a small knob called the anther. The anthers contain the pollen, a hue 

 powdery substance that is essential to fructification. Figure B shows a 

 pistillate flower. Figure C represents a section of a perfect flower, and 

 affords another view of the arrangement of stamens and pistils. From a 



B 



Pistillate or Imperfect Flower Enlarged. 



Section of Perfect Flower. 



botanical point of view the true fruit of the Strawberry is what we call 

 seeds, which are embedded upon a fleshy receptacle. But though the 

 effect of the pollen simply perfects the seeds, yet if these are not properly 

 formed the receptacles do not enlarge, but wither off. Sometimes plants 

 have stamens and no pistils, but this is not common, and is a sign of 

 degeneracy, and such varieties should be promptly replaced by more 

 reliable ones. Pistillate varieties will yield good crops, provided they 



are fertilised by the pollen of other kinds 



close to them through 



