118 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
the fruit if properly supplied with pollen, 
or pollinated. It is, therefore, seen that all 
the pistils must be pollinated or deformed 
fruit will result. At times, some of the 
pistils are killed by frost. This gives a 
deformed or lopsided fruit, the same as 
produced by the lack of proper pollination. 
All varieties of strawberries have the pis- 
tillate parts well developed. But some are 
defective as to the stamens. The latter are 
classed as “pistillate” (P.); the others as 
“perfect” or bi-sexual (B.). 
The question now arises, what has this 
to do with the planting of strawberries? 
With a clear understanding that there is 
such a thing as sex in plants, then it is 
possible so to plant that deficiencies in one 
line or the other may be overcome. 
Such pistillate varieties as Bubach, Haver- 
land, Sample, Warfield, and others, should 
not be planted alone, but should be mixed 
or planted with such bi-sexual varieties as, 
Senator Dunlap, Wm. Belt, Excelsior, Lady 
Thompson, etc. — that is, plant one or two 
rows of the pistillate, then one row of the 
bi-sexual, and so on throughout the entire 
bed. Even Glen Mary, which is a weak 
