. The fruit-growers guide-book. hould be worked over with a hoe and the plants thinnedout and culled, leaving only the most vigorous. This workis or should be done immediately after the fruit crop hasbeen gathered, as the plants will then have the remainderof the summer to build up new plants to produce the cropof fruit for the next summer. Sex in Strawberries Many persons who are inexperienced in the growing ofstrawberries find that when their first planting comes into 236 The Fruit-Growers Guide-Book producing age that it may blossom very freely but fail toproduce a single fruit. The reason
. The fruit-growers guide-book. hould be worked over with a hoe and the plants thinnedout and culled, leaving only the most vigorous. This workis or should be done immediately after the fruit crop hasbeen gathered, as the plants will then have the remainderof the summer to build up new plants to produce the cropof fruit for the next summer. Sex in Strawberries Many persons who are inexperienced in the growing ofstrawberries find that when their first planting comes into 236 The Fruit-Growers Guide-Book producing age that it may blossom very freely but fail toproduce a single fruit. The reason for it is that the flow-ers were not fertilized or pollinated. Some varieties ofstrawberries do not produce pollen; they are provided onlywith pistils, or the female organs of reproduction and mustbe pollinated by the pollen from varieties which have per-fect or pollen-producing flowers. Varieties like Excelsior,Klondike or Aroma have perfect flowers and are capableof setting fruit when planted alone, but other varieties n^Ct^^. pisfi^
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