Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1856-02-28

i equally as well as the purely staninate.
These three varieties Of flowers are rep
presented by figs. |, .. and 3, plate |.
Fig. is from hermaphrodite plant,
which blooms and inpfegnates itself
/ The stamens marked a, are full Of
fine pollen, or ryeilow powder, WHICH fall
ing on the end Of the unopened caIyx OF
the buds, below the flower, or around it,
on the pistiIlate plants, is carried BY an
unseen agency direct to the pist,l. I'M
/ ORIGINATING and setting the culture, and
the best irnpregnator for the ever-bear-
ing Hovey Seeding ever met.
Fig . is the sterile sta,ninate, or
male plant, never producing fruit under
any circumstances whatever It will
be observed the flower is larger and
more snowy than the others. It de-
ceives many inexperienced cuitiyators
with its false promises of fruit. The
/ flower Of the pure male may be easily
known by its large anthers and stamens,
as marked q. ), in Fig. ?.
1 Fig. 8 IS the pistillage or female bios
som. il will be observed that there
are no stamens around the pistil, as b,
but nearly every bud will produce ber-
ry if iInpregnated by one of the staniu-
ate or hermaphrodite plants. CT this
variety is the Hovey Seeding, which as
as far as my experience goes, IS the
best stawberry ever cultivated North or
South. This, and the Early Scarlet, as
they appear in Plate II and Ill, are a
fair sample Of the fruit produce at the
South, at least six months in the year
and see no reason why, with the same
culture they may not bear in the North
four months in the year. 1t will be OBJ
served that these plants are in full and
perfect fruit and at the ground mark
ed b, is the germ Of another fuit-stem,
which will be in bloom and fruit by the
time the older fruit is gone ; and thus it |
will continue through the most Of the
year, if the runners are kept down, and
the plants cultivated as hereafter des-
cribed. @
4 Before proceeding to the method of
culture, ! will give my views Of the time
Of impregnation, being fully satisfied
that the generally received opinion that
the strawberry is impregnated after the
petals expand, is entirely erroneous. l i
have long since observed that the first
strawberry blossoms never produce fruit
The staminate varieties, or rather the
hermaphrodite, open front two to ten
blossoms, which must shed their pollen
on the end ofthe unopen calyx Of the
young buds below, or fall on the ends Of
the unopened buds, and Immediately
cause impregnation. Il .ss.ss
Fig. S is sketch Of the staminate
variety, just as it buds and blooms, with
two flowers fully expanded. The stan,-
ems and anthers are plainly perceptible,
the anthers being loaded with pollen, and
may have impregnated many bud
around them but neither of these flow
ers can produce berry, once having
opened the petals without impregnation.
Fig. 4 is the pistillate variety, an ex-
Act copy from nature The flower will :
be seen fully expanded, but never make )
! fryit, The unopened buds. a,a, be- /,
ow il, may all be made TO fruit, ifthe
pollen from the staminate flowers &C, !.
ig. 5, fall upon their ends before ex- J
banded.
The pollen Of flowers is one Of the d
most volatile substances in nature. That t,
# the strawberry, viewed through a $
is hairy substance, which is
.pon ripening, bursts and floats of on a
he least breath Of air The point Of j
he unopened calyx, marked d, fig. 4, Il
ontains glutinous matter, which i
atches and holds this hairy pollen, and a
he work Of ,mpregnation is done and 1,
,hen the calyx opens, and the petals
xpands, the young strawberry may be r.
cen perfectly formed. From this will Il
. aeenEthe importance Of the pistiliate
nd staminate varieties blooming togeth-
\. I would always prefer the pis.iI- q
ate plant for q large fruit crop !; for, if| x
roperly impregnated, nearly every bud &
il! be berry. Thousands Of blos- h