. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. FRUIT CULTURE. 1(349 red. Besides being very productive, the plants are vigorous, hardy, and easily cultivated. Other fine varieties are the Windsor Chief, a productive variety resembling the Champion; the Kentucky, a valuable kind, producing fruit after many varieties have ceased bearing Miner's Great Prolific, Boyden, Jucunda, Gov. Jewell (seedling), a new variety of great promise, etc. Hermaphrodite and Pistillate Plants.—Strawberries are divided into classes, c
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. FRUIT CULTURE. 1(349 red. Besides being very productive, the plants are vigorous, hardy, and easily cultivated. Other fine varieties are the Windsor Chief, a productive variety resembling the Champion; the Kentucky, a valuable kind, producing fruit after many varieties have ceased bearing Miner's Great Prolific, Boyden, Jucunda, Gov. Jewell (seedling), a new variety of great promise, etc. Hermaphrodite and Pistillate Plants.—Strawberries are divided into classes, characterized by their blossoms. The first is called staminate (or male) because the stamens are chiefly developed; the second herma^ihrodite (or perfect), on account of their having both stamens 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 rarely found among cultivated varieties. The hermaphrodites may be easily distinguished from the pistillate varieties at the time of blossoming, by the long yellow anthers that protrude from among the pistils, these being very abundant and bearing a fine dust or pollen. In the pistillate or imperfect blossomed varieties, only the cluster of i)istils is visible in the blossoms, the pistils being closely packed together, 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 to thirty feet of them, so that the pollen from the blossoms of the latter will fertilize those of the former. Varieties blossoming about the same time should be selected to fertilize each other. The hermaphrodite varieties are gener
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