STAMINATES AND PISTH.I.ATES. 57 



ANDREW WILLSON No; every third row should be staminate. 

 Some of the very best are imperfect flowering. O. 



No staminates that I know of are h^avy croppers, unless it 

 BENJ. BUCKMAN may be Parker Karle. Proportion varies, 

 say four rows H. and two rows P- 111. 



Imperfect varieties are somewhat of a nuisance, but cannot 

 A. I. ROOT be discarded, especially such varieties as Bubach, 

 Haverland and Warfield, and some others, until we find some 

 other varieties that will give the same results in berries. O. 



By all means, as it is a nuisance to have to plant a staminate 

 A G. SHARP to every third or fourth row, as is now necessary 

 with these imperfect flowering varieties. Mass. 



H. S. TIMBRELL I think not ; as the imperfect are, as a rule, 

 the most productive. N. Y. 



J. R. HAWKINS I am not in favor of using imperfect flowering 

 varieties. N. Y. 



In planting both kinds equally valuable, I would plant in 

 Alternate rows. When one variety is most valuable, then plant 

 J. H. HALE two to one. Have sometimes planted three to five 

 rows imperfect, to one of perfect, and found it all right if dry 

 weather prevails at planting time, but more or less of a failure 

 if rains come when plants are in bloom. Conn. 



I think we are soon coming to the time when imperfect 

 G. F. WHEELER flowering varieties will be discarded. The 

 introduction of a few more staminate kinds will make it impos- 

 sible to introduce anything but a perfect flowering variety. 



Mass. 



Many growers of plants say, "Give me perfect blooming 

 plants, I do not want the setting of so many kinds." Not so the 

 experienced grower, for he has learned that the pistillates are 

 the ones from which his baskets are filled, and his pockets 

 J. W. ADAMS replenished. It is yet a disputed point what 

 proportion of flowering plants to be used. We recollect one 

 excellent crop from pistillate varieties with no other sorts within 

 one hundred feet of them. We have now settled on one stereo- 

 typed rule of three of pistillates to one of staminates. Mass. 



