Archive image from page 305 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofame04bail Year: 1906 1736 STRAWBEKRY mens that they are practically pistillate or sterile. Any variety will fertilize any other variety if it bears suffi- cient pollen and if the two kinds bloom at the same time. When planting pistillate vari
Archive image from page 305 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofame04bail Year: 1906 1736 STRAWBEKRY mens that they are practically pistillate or sterile. Any variety will fertilize any other variety if it bears suffi- cient pollen and if the two kinds bloom at the same time. When planting pistillate varieties, every third row 416. Pot-grown Strawberry plant. should be a pollen-bearing kind. The horticultural bearing of the sexual characters of the Strawberry flower seems to have been first clearly explained in this country by Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati (see Long worth; also his essay on the subject in his 'Culti- vation of the Grape,' 1846, and the 'Straw- berry Report' of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, 1848). When manv of the akenes or 'seeds' of tlip st,.,wl„n\ .u, not or are killed 1>\ Imi in ..tin i un m tin Ii must .ibuinUiitLite m the fruiting season, when the pollen supply is small and when the plants are relatively ex- hausted. The cost of growing an acre of Strawber- ries under commercial conditions in Oswego county. New York (which is one of the lead- ing Strawberry centers of the North) is ap- proximately as follows: Rent of land, two years $11 00 STRAWBERRY New varieties of Strawberries are raised from seed with the greatest ease. The generations of Strawberries are short and new varieties soon find favor. The varie- ties change so frequently in popular estimation that it is impracticable to recommend a list of them in a work like this. The first great American berry was the Hovey (Fig. 1088, Vol. 111. the most popular single varietv has been tin WiNun , I'iu. 2420), now practically extinct. The |i:iiiMiiu' |.Mur
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