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disposition to run and encourage them to fruit " ("A Complete 

 Manual for the Cultivation of the Strawberry," 3rd edition. By 

 E. G. Pardee. New York, 1857). 



The next step was the introduction by the firm of Mabille at 

 Limoges of a diminutive new variety called l'Inepuisable, an 

 account of which appeared in the " Eevue Horticole," October 1 



Fig. 73.— 'St. Joseph' Perpetual Strawberry. 



1871 (page 506). In the new plant the physiological problem was 

 solved, in so far as the production of flower stems during all the 

 summer and autumn not only took place, but was even frequent 

 and uninterrupted ; but the weak point was found in the defec- 

 tive organisation of the flowers, which, through lack of stamens 

 or imperfect organisation of pollen, seldom set fruit, and when 

 they did so produced only small, irregular, and scarcely eatable 



