STRAWBERRY. 



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the trash should be thoroughly dry, so that it will "go like a 

 flash." If the trash is somewhat moist, so that it will burn but 

 slowly, the roots and crowns of the plants will almost certainly 

 be killed. Sometimes it may be impracticable to get the trash 

 sufficiently dry to burn well. In such cases the material should 

 be raked from over the plants into a windrow between the rows, 

 to be burned, or it may be best to cart off a part of it if the cov- 

 ering is very heavy. 



Fig. 118. Flowers of strawberry. At left, pistillate flower; at right, 

 perfect flower. 



Sexuality of the strawberry plant. We have two classes of 

 the strawberry, distinguished by their blossom. One class has 

 perfect flowers, i. e., all its flowers have well developed stamens 

 and pistils (male and female organs). These can be planted 

 alone without any other variety near, and will produce fruit. 

 This class is sometimes called bi-sexual (fig. 118). The other class 

 has pistils (female organs), but does not have stamens, or has 



