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APPENDIX C, 



CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1854. 

 MR. B. G. PARDEE : 



DEAR SIR: By this mail I send you a grape 

 pamphlet, containing an article written by me on the 

 strawberry. I will, in a day or two, send you a Keport 

 of our Strawberry Committee, written by Dr. Warder, 

 on Mr. Meehan's doctrine of changing a pistillate to a 

 staminate plant. Mr. Meehan finds plants that he took 

 from what was called a bed of Hovey's Seedling, and 

 had nearly all proved staminates or hermaphrodites. 

 Dr. Warder and Mr. Heath, of our city, saw his plants, 

 and found about one Hovey to the hundred. The 

 Hovey is so strongly marked that our children can 

 distinguish the plant from all others. Mr. Meehan 

 never heard of a pistillate plant till he came to Amer- 

 ica. I sent some of our seedlings to the President of 

 the London Horticultural Society last winter, and 

 among them pistillates. He replied that he was not 

 aware that there were plants that would not bear fruit 

 without impregnation, and suggested that the failure to 

 bear, he presumed, was from frost. He promised to 

 investigate the subject. Mr. Huntsman, of Flushing, 

 Long Island, is a botanist, and has given great atten- 



