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berry, we have but to sow their seeds and watch the result. From 

 two hundred seeds gathered from a pistillate variety I produced but 

 one pistillate ; all the others were perfect or bisexual. 



In another experiment I produced sixty pistillates and one staminate 

 in one thousand plants ; all the rest were perfect. But, it may be 

 asked, how came the staminate or male variety? In reply, I would 

 itate that there is no reason why any species of plant that will change 

 from a bisexual to a pistillate may not change to a staminate or bar- 

 ren plant. So that this question resolves itself into this, that any 

 other form of flower than that named by the scientific botanist is un- 

 natural. The cause of this change may or may not be known. 



By cultivation, man has produced a double flower on the rose, peach, 

 cherry, apple, plum, etc., from the single flower of nature. 



By cultivation, or other artificial causes, we have produced from the 

 wild strawberry, with its stamens and pistils both perfect in one 

 flower (see Figure 4), those that possess no pistils (see Figure 2). 

 Then, again, we have those in which the stamens are undeveloped while 



Fig. 4. JFig. 5. 



the pistils are perfect (see Figure 5). In others, one flower on the 

 plant will have no stamens, while another flower will have both per- 

 fect. Many other variations occur, produced by cultivation, soils, and 

 situation under which the plants are placed, such as a part or all oi 



