Il8 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



the fruit if properly supplied with pollen, 

 or pollinated. It is, therefore, seen that all 

 the pistils must be pollinated or deformed 

 fruit will result. At times, some of the 

 pistils are killed by frost. This gives a 

 deformed or lopsided fruit, the same as 

 produced by the lack of proper pollination. 



All varieties of strawberries have the pis- 

 tillate parts well developed. But some are 

 defective as to the stamens. The latter are 

 classed as "pistillate" (P.); the others as 

 "perfect" or bi-sexual (B.). 



The question now arises, what has this 

 to do with the planting of strawberries? 

 With a clear understanding that there is 

 such a thing as sex in plants, then it is 

 possible so to plant that deficiencies in one 

 line or the other may be overcome. 



Such pistillate varieties as Bubach, Haver- 

 land, Sample, Warfield, and others, should 

 not be planted alone, but should be mixed 

 or planted with such bi-sexual varieties as, 

 Senator Dunlap, Wm. Belt, Excelsior, Lady 

 Thompson, etc. — that is, plant one or two 

 rows of the pistillate, then one row of the 

 bi-sexual, and so on throughout the entire 

 bed. Even Glen Mary, which is a weak 



