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flowers. Fig. 121 represents a perfect flower, having both 

 stamens and pistils; a pistillate flower, having only the 

 female organs, is shown in fig. 122. Flowers of the stam- 

 inate or barren kind, having only male organs. 



Fig. 121. Fig. 122. 



Some of our most popular varieties of strawberries are 

 pistillate and require fertilizing with the pollen from the 

 male organs of other flowers to be fruitful. This is 



Fig. 123.— Sharpless. 

 usually done by planting one row of a kind producing 

 perfect flowers to every four or five rows of the pistillate 

 varieties. 'JT*^ 

 Staminate plants are of very little value, as the per- 



