GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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A FIELD OF KELLOGG THOROUGHBREDS AT CONNEAUT, OHIO 
T'HIS illustration is of the field of J. C. Chilson. Conneaut, Ohio, and shows Kellogg plants and the results they produce in the 
way of fruit. Mr. Chilson in the letter accompanying the photograph from which the above illustration was made, says: 
"Have been raising berries from your plants for several years, and certainly have raised some of the finest ever grown in this 
part of Ohio. I consider the Kelloee plants the best strawberry plants ever grown, and wish you still further success." 
these runner plants that appear to be so out 
of time and place. Our experiments along 
this line lead us to the conclusion that the 
best thing to do is to leave them alone, as 
they are not of sufficient importance to justify 
the labor and expense of their removal. 
The Question of Sex in Plants 
SEX in plant life is quite as important a 
matter as it is in animal life. We shall 
give some definitions and some sugges- 
tions herewith which we trust that all our 
friends may read so carefully as completely 
to grasp the true significance of this question 
and to learn which is which and how to treat 
the two sexes so as to secure desired results. 
The female plant is a pistillate, and is popu- 
larly spoken of as "imperfect" because it is 
unable to produce fruit unless poUenized 
(fertilized) by a staminate. The staminate 
is called bi-sexual (two-sexual), or "perfect- 
flowering" because it is capable of producing 
fruit when set entirely by itself, and for the 
purpose of expressing its function in fertil- 
izing the pistillates, is spoken of as "male," 
although it is not distinctly a male, in the 
sense that the pistillate is distinctly and only 
a female. Remember, then, that the perfect- 
flowering, or staminate, or bisexual, or male 
plant (all four terms being used to describe 
the masculine varieties) requires no mating; 
that the pollen of its own anthers will fertil- 
ize its own pistils, and it will thus produce 
fruit when set alone. On the other hand, 
pistillate varieties must be mated or they will pro- 
duce no fruit. In this book the mark (B) in- 
dicates a staminate or bisexual variety; (P) 
indicates a pistillate or female variety. There 
is a third order, designated as "semi-perfect" 
by some, which, while possessed of both an- 
thers and pistils, still are too weak in pollen 
to fertilize all of their own bloom. Two of 
our very popular varieties belong to this or- 
der. They are Glen Mary and Gandy. These 
varieties should be set near bisexuals of con- 
current season in order to insure a full yield 
of fruit. 
How to Mate the Plants 
■l % HTH these facts before you the import- 
ance of properly mating pistillate plants 
will be understood. To illustrate the matter 
we suggest that an ideal setting would be 
one row of Longfellow, three of Haverland, 
and one row of Senator Dunlap. Or, if Bu- 
bach, or Sample, or Cardinal were the pre- 
ferred pistillate, one or two or three rows of 
