400 
FRUIT BLOSSOMS 
Brighton grape pollinated by 1, Salem; 2, Creveling; 3, Lindley; 4, pollen of another vine of same 
variety; 5, self-pollinated; 6, by Nectar; 7, Jefferson; 8, Niagara; 9, Worden; 10, Vergennes; 11, Ro¬ 
chester.— (After Beach.) 
growers—from ignorance regarding the ropean strawberry, the hautbois, or higb- 
sex of strawberries than from any other wood strawberry of Germany. Plants with 
cause. In this genus there is a marked ten- staminate flowers are comparatively rare, 
dency for the stamens and pistils to occur while the other two forms are common, 
in different flowers. A part of the plants The strawberry grows wild thruout a 
produce staminate flowers, a part pistillate, large part of Europe, Asia, North Amer- 
and a part perfect or hermaphrodite flow- ica, and Chile, S. A. Little improvement 
ers, as is especially well shown by the Eu- was made in the fruit until after the be- 
