. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. llate Plants.—Strawberries are divided into classes,characterized by their blossoms. The first is called staminate (or male) because the stamensare chiefly developed; the second hermaijhrodiie (or perfect), on account of their having bothstamens and pistils developed; the third pistillate (or female), from the pistils being prin-cipally developed. A plant producing only male flowers cannot bear fruit, and is rarelyfound among cultivated varieties.
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. llate Plants.—Strawberries are divided into classes,characterized by their blossoms. The first is called staminate (or male) because the stamensare chiefly developed; the second hermaijhrodiie (or perfect), on account of their having bothstamens and pistils developed; the third pistillate (or female), from the pistils being prin-cipally developed. A plant producing only male flowers cannot bear fruit, and is rarelyfound among cultivated varieties. The hermaphrodites may be easily distinguished from the pistillate varieties at the timeof blossoming, by the long yellow anthers that protrude from among the pistils, these beingvery abundant and bearing a fine dust or pollen. In the pistillate or imperfect blossomedvarieties, only the cluster of pistils is visible in the blossoms, the pistils being closely packedtogether, and resembling a very minute green strawberry. The hermaphrodite varieties,having perfect blossoms, produce full crops without being fertilized by the pollen from other. LONGFELLOW. ESSEX BEAUTY. varieties; but the pistillate varieties (some which are very productive), in order to bear well,require a bed, or one or two rows of hermaphrodites to be planted within from fifteen tothirty feet of them, so that the pollen from the blossoms of the latter will fertilize those ofthe former. Varieties blossoming about the same time should be selected to fertilize eachother. The hermaphrodite varieties are generally preferred by planters, since they requireno care of this kind. As many of our best varieties belong to the pistillate class, however, asof the hermaphrodite. Propagation and Soil.—The strawberry plant is easily and rapidly propagated bymeans of the runners, which are used for forming a new plantation or bed. New varietiesmay be produced by planting the seed, or by hybridizing the same as with all other
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