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APPENDIX C 



CixcixxATj^ Oilio, A^dg. 1S54. 

 ^Ie. E. G. Pardee : 



Dear Sir : — Bv tliis mail I send von a grape 

 pamplilct, co::::.ii:ir.g an article VvTitten by me on the 

 strawberry. I will, in a day or two. send yon a Eeport 

 of our S:ravr;:erry C'l'mniiwee. written by Dr. AVarder, 

 on Mr. Mcelian's d':c:ri::e of clianging a pistillate to a 

 staminate plant. l\Ir. Meelian finds plants that he took 

 from what was cahell a bed of Hovey's Seedling, and 

 had nearly all pr^wed stanhnates or hermaphrodites. 

 Dr. AVard-r and Mr. Hea:h= of our city, saw his plants, 

 and found about one Hovey to the hundred. The 

 Hovey is so stronglv marked that our children can 

 distinguish the }:'lant from all others. Mr. Meehan 

 never heard of a piwihate plant thl he came to Amer- 

 ica. I sent some ui <jur se^dhi:gs to the President of 

 the London Horncuhural Socirty last winter, and 

 among them pistihates. He rephed that he was not 

 aware that there were plants that vro rdd not bear frudt 

 without imL'regnation. and suggested that the friilure to 

 bear, he presumed, vras fr-jm frost. He pr'jnhse':! to 

 investigate the subject. Mr. Huntsman, of Flushings 

 Long Island, is a botanist, and has given gTeat atten- 



