50 SEXl^-lL CHAEACTKR. 



that one plant v.nll drive every good fruit-bearing plant 

 out of the bed. 



This is one reason vrhy so many stravberry beds 

 fail afrer the hrst be:; ring season : so v^e repeat in the 

 stronoesr manner, g'^t pure plants — difficult, ve knovr 

 —and on no account permit aytu tico kinds to run 

 together : place boards on edge betmeen them, or in 

 some vay protect them from each other. 



After this erisc^de on a verv oo'actical noint, ve mav 

 be permitted to say. there are stratvberry rlants v*e 

 cai] staminate, because they exhil:it to the eye very 

 distinct stamens. Our plate vdll illustrate this. An- 

 other kind v-e call pistillate, because the naked eye 

 can discover developed in the blossom only the pistils. 

 Most of our intelligent hcnticmturists assure us. that 

 the best staminates vill onlv produce a par: cf a fail 

 crop of fruit, vdhle the pistiilare varieties vhll r rc'duce 

 no perfect fruit at all. vuthout being impreouatrd by 

 some staminates m the vicinity : but when thus im- 

 pregnated, the pisthlates produce an abundance of the 

 finest fruit. 



The interesting and accurate experiment of Mr. 

 Huntsman, in the Appendix, C, sets this matter in a 

 very clear light. 



Some of the staminates recent intrc'duction. like 

 TTalker's Seedling and Len. '.vcrth's Prolific, are so 

 verj' desirable, that every cultivator should have one 



