Remarks on several varieties of Strawberries. 405 



know the result with your seedling plants, that are perfect in 

 both stamens and pistils. You will not find them worthy of 

 cultivation, unless it be to impregnate your female plants. In 

 a thousand years, they will not produce a female plant, nor 

 will your bearing; ones produce stamens by running. My 

 sketch of the flowers of the male and female Hudson blos- 

 soms, though sketched from memory, was correct. As a 

 general rule, the male blossom of each variety is much larger 

 than the female of the same variety. Your drawings will be 

 of great value to all cultivators of the strawberry who do not 

 knoiv too much to benefit by your article. 



David T. Dismy, Esq., informed me he had seen larger 

 and finer strawberries growing in the prairies of Iowa, than he 

 had ever seen in our market. Though incredulous, I request- 

 ed him to obtain me some plants, which he did in the spring 

 of 1841. I planted them on a north border, and, when in 

 blossom, found ihere were two varieties of them, and of each, 

 both male and female plants. They grew badly, and bore but 

 little fruit, and that of small size, in March last, having, as 

 usual, none but female plants in my beds, I directed some 

 male plants, wholly defective in the female organs, to be planted 

 in the paths between the beds. When these plants were in 

 blossom, I discovered there were two varieties, both males, 

 but one of them producing fine fruit, and different from any 

 variety in my garden. Some plants had scarcely a defective 

 blossom; others produced from four to six strawberries: the 

 fruit was the largest in my garden. On inquiry, I found that 

 a part had been taken from the bed of the Iowa strawberry, 

 and were those producing fruit. 



This strawberry grows in the prairies of Iowa, fully expos- 

 ed to the sun and air. On my north border, they had not the 

 full advantage of either, and to this cause, I doubt not, their 

 failure is to be attributed. On the border I found female 

 plants, and I have now given them a location where they will 

 have the full benefit of sun and air. Every blossom will bear 

 a fruit, and, I anticipate, of large size. The male plant, should 

 it sustain present promises, I consider invaluable for the im- 

 pregnation of your seedling. Keen's, Hudson, kc.: invalua- 

 ble, for it can, even when out of blossom, be distinguished 

 from all other kinds, and kej)t from overrunning the beds; and 

 from, its large size, good quality of the fruit, and certainty of 

 producing a fair crop, well deserving of cultivation by itself. 



