STRAWBERRY. 16° 
The Alpines are small, productive, and sweet. 
~The Bush Alpines are nice for borders. 
Mr. Hovey raised the Seedling which goes by his name, 
and the celebrated Boston Pine, from the same lot of seed. 
He states that it is the character of his Seedling, as it is of 
the Harly Virginia.and some other varieties of the straw- 
berry, rarely to,produce more than three or four trusses'of 
fruit to each root, so that they require to be grown thickly 
in beds to produce: good crops. This, however, was not 
generally the case with the Boston Pine, the ‘tendency of 
which ‘is to produce ten or twelve ‘trusses of ‘fruit to each 
root, so that one hundred and fifty berries had been count- 
ed on a single plant. In consequence of this characteristic, 
when, the vines occupy all the ground, there is a deficiency 
of nourishment and the berries do not fill up. Hence many 
failures had occurred in the cultivation of this; variety, 
which required more room than other kinds; when grown 
in rows with a foot or more space left between, and that 
space well manured, the crop was most abundant. When 
planted in hills, one or more feet apart each way, and one 
or more plants in each place, the runners ‘could: be kept 
clipped off, and the ground tilled with either the hoe, 
plough or cultivator. “ 
Strawberry plants are commonly designated as male and 
female, and it is of great importance to understand how to 
distinguish these:apart, since a bed with too large a pro- 
. portion of male plants will prove very unproductive. The 
distinction can be readily made.when in flower, ‘the. blos- 
soms of the females having an entirely green centre, whilst 
those that exhibit a great many yellow stamens represent 
the male, or darren plants. Such flowers as haye only a 
portion of stamens around the base of the green conical 
