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now presume to deny. But in the strawberry there 

 are three varieties — the perfect male, the perfect female, 

 and the hermaphrodite. The perfect pistillate, or 

 female, is the most productive of the three, when im- 

 pregnated by one of the other kinds. The perfect 

 staminate, or male, produces no fruit, making a great 

 show of flowers, and sending out innnmerable runners 

 which will soon take possession of the whole bed. 

 The hermaphrodite produces fruit, but not in so great 

 abundance as the pistillate, and answers the purpose of 

 an impregnator equally as well as the purely staminate. 

 These three varieties of flowers are represented by Figs. 

 1, 2, and 3, page 51. 



Fig. 1 is from an hermaphrodite plant, which blooms 

 and impregnates itself. The stamens, marked a, are 

 full of a fine pollen, or yellow powder, which falling 

 on the end of the unopened calyx of the buds, below 

 the flower, or around it, on the pistillate plants, is 

 carried by an unseen agency direct to the pistil, im- 

 pregnating and setting the fruit. This variety is the 

 Early Scarlet, a continuous bloomer with my culture, 

 and the best impregnator for the ever-bearing Hovey 

 'Seedling I have ever met. 



Fig. 2 is the sterile staminate, or male plant, never 

 producing fruit under any circumstances whatever. It 

 will be observed the flower is larger and more showy 

 than the others. It deceives many an inexperienced 



