strawberries and How He Grows Them 
Expectation. Realization, 
The Strawberr}'; the most delicious fruit God ever created. 
PROPAGATION BY SEEDS. 
We cannot rely on plants i)ropagate(l by 
seeds because there is a consolidation or mer- 
ger of two life germs that of the male and 
another of the female and one may be much 
stronger than the other. If you were to plant 
twenty thousand seeds of the Sample straw- 
berry fertilized by Aroma, probably not one 
would be better or as good as the Sample be- 
cause an entire new vascular system would be 
created in the merger. There is a complete 
division of each and every characteristic of 
father and mother in every particular and 
sometimes peculiarities of even remote ances- 
ters will appear in the new life. You have of- 
ten heard tlie expression. "The picture of his 
grandfather and evidently no relation to his 
parents." 
While delivering a lecture before the Ohio 
State Horticultural Society I was asked to 
name the best strawberry in existence. I re- 
plied it was that which had such a gland sys- 
tem as would in ])roducing its seeds, build up 
the largest amount of fruit flesli and give it 
the richest flavor, best texture, most pleasing 
color and form. When asked for the name I 
t-eplied that I did not know. We were not 
agreed liecause the conditions under which 
plants grow is different and their organism 
is affected in that way. 
When we do find this ideal Vaiit organism 
we peri)etuate it by dividing its buds whether 
it be strawberry, tree or vine, because as 
stated, the embryo tree or plant in the bud 
contains the same vascular or gland system 
and therefore produces similar fruit no matter 
from what source it receives its nourishment. 
PROPAGATION BY RUNNERS. 
The strawberry sends out from its body a 
vine called runner. It forms a bud or node and 
protoplasm collects in it and thus a new life is 
formed. When leaves and roots are formed 
to support it the conncctin.g vine dries uj) and 
dies and we liave a new and distinct creation. 
Tlie imiiortaut point to note is that the new 
plant has the same gland system as that from 
which the runner came. It is the same with 
all trees and other plants propagated by graft- 
ing, cuttings and buds. It is called propagat- 
ing asexually or without the aid of the sexes. 
You have known of cases of serious burns 
or injury where life could only be saved by 
grafting the flesh of another person onto the 
injury. Now, suppose a surgeon grafted a 
piece of the scalp of a ne.gro onto that of a 
white man. Wool and a black skin would al- 
ways grow there and straight hair and white 
skin around it because the gland sj'stem in the 
grafted flesh would not change. 
PLANT PEDIGREE. 
Pedigree Plants means plants scientifically 
develojied. The word "science" means knowl- 
edge classified, or in other words, work car- 
ried on under a well iilanned and defined sys- 
tem. The word "i)edigree" means a descrip- 
tion of the individual ancestry in a lineal as- 
cent. All animals have a pedigree, but all an- 
imals are not called pedigree animals because 
the word is always used in a technical sense. 
It means skillful breeding. Look at the pho- 
tograph of the wild steers of Texas. These 
are not pedigree animals because they were 
bred on the plains hit or miss without any 
direction by the trained eye and hand of man, 
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