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disposition to run and encourage them to fruit ” (“ A Complete 
Manual for the Cultivation of the Strawberry,” 3rd edition. By 
B. 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’lnepuisable, an 
account of which appeared in the “ Bevue Horticole,” October 1, 
Fig. 73.—‘ St. Joseph ’ Pep.petual 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 
