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bear no fruit." I requested Mm to point out any that 

 would. He selected two. I inquired, " Can you then 

 see tlie difference?" ^'ISTot now," said lie; "I could if' 

 they were in blossom." I found him disposed to give 

 no fuither information. T marked the plants, and 

 Y/hen in blossom, could distinguish them at a distance 

 of several feet. There was not one of these to the 

 hundred. Before they were out of blossom, I cast 

 them all out, as I supposed; they spread, and the next 

 season I had a full crop. But finding a few barren 

 plants before they were out of blossom, I dug them al] 

 up, and the next season had not a single berry. I then 

 understood the subject, and made it known. In that 

 day we had no hermaphrodite plants. 

 Yours truly, 



K LOXGWOETH. 



CINCINNATI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Secretary^ at the request of the Society, reported 

 a written statement of how he found the strawberry 

 question in Philadelphia ; after some animated discus- 

 sion, it was moved to accept and file the report, and 

 the finality was ordered to appear in the minutes of 

 the day. 



It has long been argued by some distinguished hor- 

 ticultural writers that certain varieties of the straw- 



