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GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 



Strawberry that had already given an immense early 

 crop. 



Mr. Durand says that the Crimson Cluster is so 

 completely a pistillate variety that the stamens can 

 hardly be seen, yet, he further says, it may be planted 

 five miles away from any other Strawberry and never fail 

 to produce enormous crops. He adds that he has grown 

 it in frames under glass in early spring, where it could 



Fig. 87. SHARPLESS STRAWBERRY. 



not possibly be impregnated with any other variety, with 

 the same results an abundant crop. 



He thinks that this fact, to a great extent, upsets the 

 very prevalent notion that perfect stamens and pistils on 

 the same plant are necessary to produce a crop of fruit. 

 Without having personally given the matter much atten- 

 tion, I have long believed, from general observation, that 

 there was more importance given to the necessity for 



