Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-01-16

has always Remained the ssame, without
any variation or change, and there is no
variety that has both Pis'illa,e and SIAM
mate plants Now, Of these three varie.
ties, the Pistillates are the mos, produc-
tive Of fruit, and the Hermaphrodites the
next so, while the Staminates, though they
have the largest and most snowy flowers
or blossoms, and send out innumerable
new shoots or runners, never produce any
fruit, or very rarely so. But the Pis,il-
la'es will bear no fru. or at least only
small and poor fruit until or unless their
petals or opening blossoms are impregna.
ted with the pollen "a very light, fine yel.
low powdery subs,ance) Of the Staminates,
or of the Hermapbrodites, for the HERNIA.
phrodtes will answer the purposes Of i'm.
pregnation equally as well as the Stsmin-
ates. Hence, it is absolutely necessary
for you to know and to have due proper.
ton of these several kinds of plabts in
your patch, to secure an abundance of large
and fine straw wberries. What constitutes
this due proportion among the several var
ie'ies of this plant, is not yet fully settled.
Charles 4. Peabody, a very successful
Strawberry grower Of Georgia, informs US
that be plants row of the Large Early
Scarlet "a Hermaphrodite) and then sew
en- rows Ct Hovey'. Seediiu: "a Pistillate)
along side of it, aud then another row of
the same Scarlet and seven rows Of the
Hoyey, &c, the rows being two feet apar:
each way, and that the Hermaphrodte, so
arranged, impregnates the female or Pts.
tiila'e Hovey and thus secures him an a.
bundant crop Of fine fruit for a, least six
months ia the year-and that these are al
so the only two varieties which he has
found to bloom and fruit together the
whole season. (See U. s. Ag. Report of
1883, P. 5l7, 49, He says, ~ plant the
Stamiuate every eighth row. Some cul,i-
vators mix in the rows; but prefer to
keep them separate and distinct as they
are more easily distinguished and kept be-.
ter in their places" id The most sue
cessful cultivators Of Straw berries at Gin.
cinnati, in Ohio-that famous Straw berry,
marke:-say that their best and most
abundant crops "are furnished principally
by those who have adopted the system Of
planting female or Pistillate plants with
a proportion Of about one tenth Of male o.
Staminate plants for fertiliziDg" (Ses
Buchanan on the Grape, &c, p. 1875, g.
The site Of your strawberry patch, should
be one that is we'll exposed to the sun and
air. You should select your stalks from
the runners of such plants as are the most
vigorous and fruitful these may be mark.
ed by putting small stakes into the ground
near them when in full.bearing. If the
weather be very dry when your plants are
in bloom, you should water them all over
freely, as this will prevent the fine fructi-
flying pollen from being blown away by the
winds, and so set your whole bed with fruit.
Then, you must keep your S.aminats
plants from running and spreading over
your whole patch and roofing ont your
PiStillate plants, as they certainly will do,
in year or two, if you do not watch them
closely and cut of their runners at least
three times every season and imbed them
where you cut them for manure. Mr..
Peabody says Straw berry patch, so man.
,ged, will remain productive for twelve
rears, and as he believes as much longer as
his careful culture is continued. Hovey's
'eedling, is, according TO his experience,
he best Strawberry ever cultivated, either
1t the North or in the South. For picto-
.ial views showing the difference between
he Pistillaie, Staminate and Hermapbro-
lite blossoms of the Strawberry plant, see
he books above quoted, or Downings
work on frui. and fruit.trees
AGPICoIA