305 



pyrenaicum luteum. 



rubrum. 



Sarana (Sarana camtschatkensis. j 

 sinicum. 



spectabile vide davuricum. 



staminosum. 



superbum. 



" pyramidale. 

 Takesimae 

 tenuifolium. 



testaceum (excelsum, Isabelliiiiisi, ptsi^gnoum] 

 stark, 



Thomsoniaimm (roseum.) 

 Thunbergianum. 



' ' asamidoli. 



atrosangineum maculatum. 

 aurantiam multiflorum. 



" aureum. 



*' maculatum. 



" *' nigro-maculatum. 



" citriniira. 



" Feu Kwam. 



" grandiflorum. 



*' hybridum. 



" latimaculatum. 

 Thumbergianum pintum, 



" roseum, 



'* variegatum. 

 tigrinum (sinense,) 



" angustifoliura, 



" erectum, 



" japonicum, 



" laciniatum, 



" praecox, 

 umbellatum, 



" atrosanguineum, 



" bieolor, 



" citrinum, 



" cruentum, 



" fomiosum, 



" immaculatum, 



" macranthum fulgens, 



marmoratum grandiflorum, 



" puiictatissimumj 



" splendidum, 



" vitellinum maculatum, 

 venustum, 

 Wallichianum. 



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 -in or before the 10th of the month. 



^Ij^-The Editor cannot answer letters for this department pri= 

 ^^ately. 



Male AND Female Strawberries-—" Dw/^e/' 

 Gincmnati, Ohio, says : Talking recently with an 

 intelligent English gardener, I stated that the dis- 

 tinction between hermaphrodite and pistillate flow- 

 ers in Strawberries was first discovered in the United 

 States by an old German woman of this place, and 

 first made known to the horticultural world by the 

 late Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnatti. In sup- 

 port of the fact that nothing of these distinctions 

 were known in Europe, I referred to the fact that 

 both Linn93us and the late Dr. Lindley ignored their 

 existence. The English gardener asserts that this 

 is not so, that male and female Strawberries are well 

 known in England. Am I right, or is he ? 



[The writer combatted this notion during the life- 

 time of Mr. Longworth, and so often since, that we 

 are nearly tired of saying anything more, — but it 

 shows how hard it is to eradicate an error when once 

 it gains a hold on mankind. Briefly then again we 

 say, that the knowledge of male and female Straw- 

 berry plants was known in England probably before 

 Mr. Longworth was born. In the Horticultural 

 Transactions it is related that Keen, the great Strav/- 

 berry miser, and originator of Keen's Seedling, over 

 sixty years ago, got enormous crops from his pistil- 

 late beds, by planting about one male to every ten 

 pistillate plants. As for Dr. Lindley, we believe he 

 never cared to argue much about any facts brought 

 to his notice from this side of the Atlantic, — and 

 really we cannot much blame him, when we look 

 back and note the many ridiculous notions which 

 even apparently intelligent journals have been found 

 to sustain. It has been the misfortune of American 

 Horticulture, and to a considerable extent is so yet, 

 that it is saddled with writers who, like one who 

 once sought a position as sub-Editor of the Gai'- 

 deners llGnthly, urged as a recommendation, that 

 he possessed the talent of writing " first class arti- 

 cles on subjects he knew nothing at all about ;" and 

 'facts" from such authorities have no attractions for 

 such minds as ' ' Lindley, " or " Linneeus. ' ' Though 

 your gardener is right, and you wrong on the 

 historical question, Longworth' s discovery was no 

 doubt independent of any knowledge of priority in 

 others. And he deserves great credit for announc- 

 ing it as he did ; for it made a revolution in straw- 



