(Male Organ.) Figuke 1. 
(Female Okgan.) Figure 2. 
STRAWBERRY BLOSSOMS MAGNIFIED 
To show the sexual org-aiis, illustrating- how jjollenization takes place for the development of seeds and 
fruit. Fig"ure 1 shows the perfect flower with Pistils (/•> in center with Stamens (sy arranged around 
the outside. The enlarged Stamen on the left shows the anther fat bursting and Pollen (/} drop- 
ping out which is carried to the pistillate or imperfect flowers by wind and insects. 
Figure 2 is a sectional view showing the pistils or female organs. The pollen fall- 
ing on the stigma ta) which secretes a waxy substance for catching the pol- 
len and carries it down the style to the ovaries (c) where impreg- 
nation takes place. There is a pistil for each seed and wherever 
the pollen fails to touch no seed or fruit will develop, or if 
the pollen is weak the berries will be small and in- 
ferior. The value of Pedigree Plants, as 
will be seen in the following pages, 
lies in vigor of pistils and po- 
tency of pollen and abil- 
ity to develop fruit in- 
stead of excessive 
foliage. 
MY CLAIM. 
MY claim, briefly stated, is this: By pur- 
suing the methods pointed out in these 
pages, I have grown the largest crops of 
the finest fruit which have brought to me 
more customers than I have ever been able 
to supply and who were willing to pay me 
the highest price to secure my products. 
Beifinning- on a small scale and by 
growing a strictly high grade of fruit, the 
business has advanced rapidly until now it is 
conceded to be the largest establishment of 
its kind in the State. 
• The basis of my success is found in 
the following principles. First, in breeding 
up and accumulating high fruiting qualities 
in plants so that when the harvest comes 
every plant is loaded with fine large speci- 
mens of fruit and possesses the ability to 
bring them to the greatest perfection. 
I never have room for a blank or 
barren plant. If it cannot paj' me liberally 
for my work and use of land, it must give 
place to those which can do so. 
Second, by systematic experiments to 
ascertain the real value of varieties and 
thereby determine which are best adapted 
to my location and soil, always recognizing 
the fact that it is safer to plant most largely 
of those which succeed over a wide area of 
the country and testing new varieties only in 
a small way. 
Third, by a thorough sj'stem of fertilizing 
and cultivation which shall produce the 
greatest results for the amount of labor and 
expense incurred. This is the secret of 
large profits. 
If you are not growing three or four 
hundred bushels of strawberries and at least 
two hundred bushels of raspberries and 
three hundred bushels of blackberries per 
acre you are not enjoying the degree of 
success you are entitled to and should study 
these pages carefully and learn how the 
writer has accomplished it. 
Soil, location and climatic conditions have 
great influence but they can be controlled in 
a large measure by robust plants, with stam- 
ina that shall force a fruitage under unfav- 
orable conditions. In all these y'ears we 
have never had an unprofitable season. 
There is no more difficulty in breed- 
ing good qualities into plants than there is 
in breeding up animals. 
SEX IN PLANTS. 
It is believed that originally both of the 
sexes were contained in the same individual 
but with the animal; this is now the case 
only in the lowest forms, while in plant life 
thpre is a gradual separation going on. 
Recent years have shown a large increase 
of pistillate seedlings or those having no 
male organs. They are popular because 
much more hardy and productive. We have 
no exclusively male strawberry. Of course 
such a plant could produce no fruit. 
The bisexual plants or those containing 
both stamens and pistils (see Figure 1) must 
be set within six or eight feet of the pistil- 
lates so the pollen may be carried by wind 
and insects to the female plants (Figure 2). 
No pollen, no seeds; no seeds, no fruit. 
Every plant has a father and 
mother and like the animal it is not only 
the off^spring of its parents but of its grand 
