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SEXUAL CIIAEACTEB. 



¥iQ. 4. 



Fig 4 A perfect flower, with a stamen and pistil detached, a, the anther. 



&, the filauaent. the pistil. 



of change in any variety. We do not know that a 

 change in open-air cultivation is now much contended 

 for from any quarter. We think the mixing of plants 

 causes staminate and pistillate blossoms to be Seen 

 together. In forcings we are told, by high authority, 

 that some plants, like the melon, &c., change their 

 sexual character, and why not the strawberry ? We 

 do not know that this pointy that the strawberry does 

 iSO, has yet been fallj^ established. 



The English varieties are mostly stammates, and 

 bear fruit of extraordinary size and flavor; but we 

 think not in so large quantities as some of our pistil- 

 lates. Certainly all the English staminates prove com- 

 paratively only second-rate in our soil and climate. 



