46 Some Notes on F nig aria 



fruit-doubling or trebling and taking a spade-like or cock's comb shape. 

 There is some difficulty at present in breeding pure hermaphrodites as 

 some free flowering plants set very little fruit, and plants from seed of 

 such fruit are far from uniform in the amount of fruit they set. I had 

 virginiana and Hautbois males which never set seed whether grown 

 indoors or out. 



Last Autumn, Winter and Spring seed was germinated under glass : 

 (1) exposed to sunlight, (2) under one thickness of thick white paper, 

 (3) in the dark.. The results of many tests were so conflicting that the 

 satisfactory conclusion was come to that light has very little definite 

 effect on the germination of strawberry seed. Whilst engaged on these 

 experiments I found seed from the same fruit might take five days or 

 ten weeks to germinate, as a rule the larger the seed the sooner it 

 germinated, but this was not invariably the case. 



In conclusion I am very glad once again to be able to thank the 

 John Innes Horticultural Institution for the facilities afforded me in 

 carrying oiji my experimental work. A season which has demanded 

 more watering than is generally required in this country has been 

 helpful in encouraging the production of pollen, but has largely 

 reduced the size of fruit and checked the growth of shallow rooting 

 varieties. 



Note. The plants named " chinensis " in these and other notes 

 published in this Journal were obtained from the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, in 1910, where the parent plants are still to be found. This 

 name does not appear in The Index Kewensis, but is used in the private 

 records at Kew where reference is made to these plants. The plants 

 are very hairy, smaller, lighter in colour and less shiny than chiloensis. 

 I would class them as a subspecies of chiloensis, whether they came from 

 China or not. Plants crossed with known species gave in the Fi families 

 individuals which appeared to be alike in all points except six. Un- 

 fortunately all the plants are $ so I have not been able to self 



C. W. R. 



