no state; pomological society. 



attack a patch in full foliage, fruit-buds will at once begin to 

 form, and if the season is long enough, the result will be a 

 second crop of fruit. 



One should easily see from this how our northern grown 

 plants, when set in the South, produce earlier fruit than the 

 same variety that has been acclimatized to the conditions of that 

 climate. First, because our plants are stronger, being devel- 

 oped under more favorable conditions as far as the summer 

 influences are concerned ; second, by greater fruiting tendencies, 

 beins: developed bv a longer period of partial dormancy; third, 

 because more susceptible to the influence of heat. 



VARIETIES AND IMPROVEMENT. 



Varieties of strawberries, like all other fruits, regardless of 

 favorable seasons, will have their off years in fruiting; and I 

 have noticed that on the off years of the usually productive 

 varieties, those varieties that have been only moderately pro- 

 ductive most seasons then make their best showing. Before we 

 had so many good staminate sorts, some five years back, I 

 planted more largely of the pistillates ; for a time all went well, 

 but when there came two wet seasons, just at the blossoming- 

 period, matters did not go so well. With so many good stam- 

 inates of all seasons as we now have, I do not take chances 

 by planting largely of the pistillates. The pistillates are never 

 as reliable on a wet season as the staminates. 



All varieties, no matter how carefully propae-ated, will in 

 time run out. All perfect life, combining sex, produces 

 seed. This seed was produced for the purpose of per- 

 petuating its species. No new life can be produced except from 

 seed. All other methods of propagation are auxiliaries to 

 enlarge or multiply life. 



Now I come to the befogging c|uestion : Can we properly 

 apply "pedigree" to plants propagated by runners without 

 greatly muddling matters? The definition of "pedigree," as I 

 find it, is : "Line of ancestors." Now is there any line of 

 ancestors formed by this method of propagation? 



Let us see. Runners which are thrown out from plants, after 

 they get to a certain length, form new plants, but remain 

 attached to the main plant till they have become well rooted. 



