. American horticultural manual ... Gardening; Gardening; Fruit-culture. 266 HOETICULTtTHAL MANUAL. Others alternate the rows, planting as many rows of per- fect as of pistillate varieties. In private gardens the perfect and imperfect varieties are often alternated in the rows. This plan mixes the varieties in a way not desirable. Fia. 80.—A, Imperfect strawberry flower ; B, perfect flower, show- ing the stamens. for furnishing plants, but favorable for perfect pollination and large and perfect berries. We now have many varieties of fine size and excellent quality with perfect flowers, but exp
. American horticultural manual ... Gardening; Gardening; Fruit-culture. 266 HOETICULTtTHAL MANUAL. Others alternate the rows, planting as many rows of per- fect as of pistillate varieties. In private gardens the perfect and imperfect varieties are often alternated in the rows. This plan mixes the varieties in a way not desirable. Fia. 80.—A, Imperfect strawberry flower ; B, perfect flower, show- ing the stamens. for furnishing plants, but favorable for perfect pollination and large and perfect berries. We now have many varieties of fine size and excellent quality with perfect flowers, but experienced growers prefer to alternate the perfect and imperfect varieties, as it is found in practice that the pistillate varieties will escape injury of the ovaries by frost when those of the staminate sorts are Jiilled. It is also found that a frost that will blacken the ovaries of the staminate varieties will not injure the stamens. The development of pollen is an exhaustive process, hence the ovaries of the perfect varieties are not as well stored with starch, and as perfectly matured, as those of varieties that have no stamens or pollen. Fuller says: " Strawberry culture would probably have been just as far advanced if we had never had a pistillate variety in cultivation, and much confusion would have been avoided. Had not Mr. Ilovey produced so good a pistillate variety as he did, it is very likely that such kinds would never have been tolerated by fruit-growers any- ; This may be true in some parts of the Union,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Budd, Joseph L; Hansen, Niels Ebbesen, 1866-1950. New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc. , etc. ]
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