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the blossoms are also partially perfect in the female organs 

 and will produce some fruit. 



" Every flower contains both the male and female organs ; 

 and, in the white and monthly, both organs are always 

 perfect in the same blossom, as far as my experience goes. 

 In other kinds, the male organs are more or less defective 

 in one set of plants, and the female in the other ; and, in 

 the Hudson and some other varieties, it amounts to a com- 

 plete separation of the sexes. The male organs are so 

 defective in one set of plants, and the female in the other, 

 that an acre of either would not produce a single fruit. In 

 some of the male (staminate) varieties, more or less of the 

 blossoms are also more or less perfect in the female organs, 

 and will produce more or less fruit ; but 'I have never seen a 

 female plant Avith the male organs sufficiently developed to 

 produce a single perfect fruit. Ilovey's seedling, and some 

 others, may produce deformed berries," — Longworth. 



Mr. Longworth, in consequence of this fact, always has 

 a compartment allotted to male and one to female j^Iants, 

 and out of these he forms his beds, being able thus to 

 insure a proper proportion of males to females. Mr. S. S. 

 Jackson, a very skUlful nurseryman of Cincinnati, usually, 

 in selling plants, puts uj) ninety females to ten males in the 

 hundred. • 



We shall now give the time and manner of planting of 

 some of the best cultivators in. the West, at the East, and in 

 England. 



Mr. Jackson says : " I plant any time from the first of 

 April, till they are in bloom. I, one year, planted twenty- 

 five square roods of ground ; the plants were all in bloom 

 when set out; and the next year I picked thirty-eight 

 bushels, and there were fully ten bushels left on the 

 vines. 



"I plant them in this way: first plow or spade the 

 ground ; harrow it smooth ; then strain a line on one side 

 nine inches from the edge, and a row from twelve to fifteen 



