ANALYSIS OF THE STRAWBEERY. 



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or less perfect in pistils, so that they generally produce 

 a tolerable crop, and in favorable seasons, the pistils being 

 fully developed, they will produce a good one. This is 

 the staminate class of the hooks. The first of these classes, 

 the staminate, rarely producing fruit, and running exuber- 

 antly to vine, should be dug up wherever they are found, 

 since the hermaphrodite are productive, and ec[ually use- 

 ful for fertilizing. It is to the pistillate varieties, fertilized 

 by the hermaphrodite, that we must look for large crops 

 of fruit. 



In beds of each of these varieties, seedlings will spring 

 up, differing from the parents ; but runners from any va- 

 riety, will always produce flowers of the same class, and 

 similar in all respects to the parent plant. By the due 

 admixture of hermaphrodite and pistillate plants, five, 

 thousand quarts have been picked from an acre at Cincin- 

 nati, where the strawberry season is usually less than a 

 month. 



Analysis. — The strawberry has been analyzed by !^ich- 

 ardson: — 



Potassa, .... 



FRUIT. 



21.07 



38.65 



Soda, .... 



27.01 



9.27 



Lime, 



14.21 



12.20 



Magnesia, .... 



trace 



5.85 



Sulphuric Acid, 



3.15 



5.89 



Silicic " . 



12.05 



2.58 



Phosphoric "... 



8.59 



15.58 



Phos. of Sesquioxide of Iron, 

 Chloride of Sodium, 



11.12 



8.65 



2.78 



1.23 





99.98 



99.93 



Per-centage of ash. 



0.41 



0.39 



Potash, soda, and phosphoric acid are the elements most 

 likely to be wanting. Wood ashes and the carbonates of 

 potash and soda, prove very beneficial applications. The 



