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4t]i. A rare class — a sort of subdivision of the pre- 

 ceding—has not only hermaphrodite flowers, but also 

 some on the same trass that are of the pistillate charac- 

 ter ; and sometimes, in the same plant^ a truss will be 

 seen on Ayhich all the flowers are pistillate. 



Now these four divisions are natural and real; they 

 are also founded upon permanent character, so far as 

 we have been able to discover, after a most thorough 

 investigation, extending through a long series of years, 

 during which millions of strawberry blossoms have 

 been examined with the severest scrutiny. Other 

 forms may exist, and it is not claimed to be impossible 

 that we may yet find a seedling which shall have the 

 general character of a pistillate, that may show an 

 occasional perfect or hermaphrodite flower, as a pecu- 

 liarity of that individual, but we have never yet 

 observed such a variety; and, further, we believe that 

 whatever impress, as to peculiarities of foliage, pubes- 

 cence, habit, inflorescence, or fruit, each distinct seed- 

 ling may receive with its origin, it will be retained in 

 its increase by runners, so long as the variety remains 

 extant. Seedlings may vary from the parent, but 

 off-shoots will not be materially different, except by 

 accidental malformation or by development of unim^ 

 portant organs. 



John A. Wakder, Secretary. 



