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are 
124 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
bs. Varieties of this and of other species (as F, eLatior, Ehrh. and F. 
Cumensts, Ehrh.j, and probably hybrids, have been produced by long 
Sei lmtion: the list of those kinds that have been found valuable either 
size, fla Pp iven a one, and is yearly increased 
by the efforts of cultivators to improve on the already established varie- 
s. For several y past alled “strawberry question,” has 
occupied a large share of attention fr it-growers a writers on 
hg gai bye rar involving the nature of the plant ; whether it 
as hermaphrodite or dicecious, w whether the e pistillate os changed 
result of a ie series of careful e examinations. 
i raw y pacee mae in its varieties, four dis- 
infloresce 
ist. Those called pate 2 ae the ‘fact that the stamens are pie 
and rarely to be found w anes a dissection of the flower. These re 
quire extrinsic impregnati 
2d. Those called Dansadie which are perfectly destitute of even the 
oe of Slvaeye and are necessarily fruitless 
maphrodite or perfect, having ae sets of organs, 
stamens it piatile, apparcatly’ # well developed. These are not generally 
good and certain bearers, as we should expect Sham to rhe. With few 
exceptions they bear poorly, owing to some unobserved defect, probably 
in the pistils. oe of their flowers, generally produce perfe ct and 
jai very large berr 
A rare Med. of subdivision of the op a SP not only 
phrodite flowers, but et some oN t me same truss that are of a pis- 
tillate character ; and sometim es, oe same plant, a truss will be seen 
on which all the Pec are pisti 
Individual plants are fr requently ¥s he found, in strawberry beds, in 
which the te are all abortive,—the stamens having the appearance _ 
of coarse blig onstr nikinncthe ch set abortive—and the peor’ 
cle failing to enlarge. The Gardeners call th ae e plants,—and inst. 
that their presence is beoipanpeed iuatieriebeeties 1 of fruit 
But the flowers in question, are palpably asec aa nothing oe than 
blights. Although the ae fruit of this plant consists 2 mere dry specks, 
or bony pornels (i. e. the minute akenes), scattered over the surface of 
he enlarged receptacle,—yet the receptacle itself faritilien a pu 
t y sub- 
stitute of the most delicious character. As it is only the receptacle and 
t i 
not the true fruit for whic wherry is culti e jon 
h her this enlargement of the receptacle may not take 
place, — te ete being fertilized. Mr. G. W. Huntsman, of 
in “ Pardee’s Complete Manual for the Cultivation 
s of the Sirabera,”( me vahene work for the gyowers of the on len 
account of some experiments, which go to show that 
siicopiated; the receptacle fails to enlarge. He encloed some 
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