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bear no fruit." I requested him to point out any that 

 would. He-selected two. I inquired, "Can you then 

 see the difference?" "Not now," said he; "I could if 

 they were in blossom." I found him disposed to give 

 no further information. I marked the plants, and 

 when in blossom, could distinguish them at a distance 

 of several feet. There was not one of these to the 

 hundred. Before they were out of blossom, I cast 

 them all out, as I supposed ; they spread, and the next 

 season I had a full crop. But finding a few barren 

 plants before they were out of blossom, I dug them all 

 up, and the next season had not a single berry. I then 

 understood the subject, and made it known. In that 

 day \ve had no hermaphrodite plants. 



Yours truly, 



N. LONGWORTIT. 



CINCINNATI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE Secretary, at the request of the Society, reported 

 a written statement of how he found the strawberry 

 question in Philadelphia ; after some animated discus- 

 sion, it was moved to accept and file the report, and 

 the finality was ordered to appear in the minutes of 

 the day. 



It has long been argued by some distinguished hor- 

 ticultural writers that certain varieties of the straw- 



