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there was no virtue in hermaphrodite varieties that he 

 offered five hundred dollars to anybody who would pro- 

 duce one that was really prolific. This challenge was 

 accepted by W. R. Prince, of Flushing, New York, with 

 his Primate, but no decision was made. 



The final vindication of " Longworth's Theory." Time 

 justified the chief contention of Longworth. One of the 

 first to be converted was Hovey 

 himself. In 1845 he ad- 

 mitted : * " Enough informa- 

 tion has been elicited to show 

 that with some sorts there is 

 a tendency to barrenness when 

 grown in a plantation away 

 from other kinds. Let the 

 causes be \vhat they may, it 

 is sufficient for all practical 

 purposes to know that the 

 most abundant crop can be 

 produced by planting some 

 sort, abounding in staminate FlG - 8 - Nicholas Long- 



a ,1 if worth, who directed attention 



flowers, in the near vicinity of to the pollination problem, 

 those which do not produce 



them." The following year he unreservedly endorsed 

 "Longworth's Theory." Possibly the fact that his 

 Boston Pine, introduced in 1845, was a strong hermaph- 

 rodite, and immediately became popular among the mar- 

 ket gardeners near Boston for pollinizing the Hovey, 

 may have had something to do w r ith his conversion. 

 In 1851 Longworth, also, contributed to the humor of 

 the situation by introducing the Longworth, a hermaph- 

 rodite variety ; manifestly he could not continue to 

 1 Mag. Hort., 1845, p. 293. 



