. Gardening for the South;. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. 838 GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. at once a tolerable crop. This climate is well adapted to the culture of this fruit; since by giving the plants a due supply of moisture, fruit can be gathered the greater part of the year. The great strawberry market of the world is Cincinnati, where oyer five thousand bushels have been sold in one season. But Mr. Peabody, of Columbus, in this State, is probably the most successful of strawberry growers, having fruit in the open ground sometimes nine months in the a, STAMI-VATB. 6, PISTILLATE.
. Gardening for the South;. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. 838 GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. at once a tolerable crop. This climate is well adapted to the culture of this fruit; since by giving the plants a due supply of moisture, fruit can be gathered the greater part of the year. The great strawberry market of the world is Cincinnati, where oyer five thousand bushels have been sold in one season. But Mr. Peabody, of Columbus, in this State, is probably the most successful of strawberry growers, having fruit in the open ground sometimes nine months in the a, STAMI-VATB. 6, PISTILLATE. C, HERMAPHKODITE. In its natural state, the strawberry generally produces perfect or hermaphrodite blossoms. The hermaphrodite are those which have both the stamens perfect, and the pistils so well developed, as to produce a tolerably fair crop of fruit. Cultivation has so affected the strawberry, in this respect, that there are now three classes of varie- ties :—1st. Those in which the male or staminate organs are always perfect, like a, in the figure ; but the female or pistillate organs are so defective, that they will very rarely bear a perfect fruit. These are called staminate. 2d. Those in which the female or pistillate organs are perfect, (see &, in figure,) but in which the male organs are gener- ally so defective that they cannot produce fruit at all, un- less in the neighborhood of, and fertilized by staminate or hermaphrodite plants. Impregnated by these, they bear enormous crops. These are pistillate. 3d. (See figure c.) Those, like the native varieties, whitfh are true herma- phrodites, that is, they are perfect in stamens, and more. 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 White, William N. , 1819-1867. New York, C. M. Saxton and company; Athens, Ga. , W. N. White
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