The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-06-27
Cultivation Of the Stra " berry Secret
Out.

10 the readers Of the Tritrne know
to what degree the strawberry is grown
in the environs Of Cincinnati The
season has not yet begun, but under
stand that in the course of . week or two
hundreds and hundreds of bushels will
be brought in each day. Last season
one man would have three hundred
bushels Ia the market at time Mr..
Longworth is the father of the straw
berry culture, as well as Of the vine cul-
ture. He has given to the world the
fruits of remarkable discovery in the
shape Of three nav seedling-the Supc-
rior, the Prolific, and the Extra Red;
each Of which has an excellence Of its
owe. This new discovery was the pro-
perty Of an ignorant market woman, who
FIRST in Philadelphia, and next in Gin
einnatti, beat all her neighbors in the
abundance AZ we'll As the faeness Of her
crop. Every spring she would carefully
e. over her beds, pull up numbers of the
largest blossoming plants, and throw them
over the fence. The rival gardeners,
.mulous of her success, took the rejected
plants and Sc. them out in their gardens
Da. not get had they caught the goose
thu. laycd the golden eggs Her cast
svays did no batter than the old ones, if
~ WE'LL and still she raised FIVE times As
many berries as any one else. On CON-
iag to CINCINNATI, she still distanced all
competitors; why, no one could discover
Al length her son esrclessly dropped =
hint in the hearing of Mr.. Longworth,
who caught it up and experimental, I'M
til he found ont tae curious fact, that
the strawberry is sometimes male, some
times female, and sometimes hermaphro-
dise, having both organs more or less
complete fact, the judicious use where
Of has brought the price Of strawberries
from 10 to 80 cents down to | and 5
cents Per quart, and made them a staple
of the State II was the male strawber
ries, whose blossoms are always the larg-
est, that the market woman threw over
the fence, keeping just gentlemen enough
in her beds for the ladies. Too many
not only take up too much room, but a.
their energies are not exhausted in bear
ing fruit, grow and spread so fast as scri-
ously 10 encroach upon the harems, so
that, if not looked to in time, they arc
likely, as Mr. Longworth says, ito kick
I'll the women out Of bed" Hence it is
that many people find, to their great sur
prise, that they have fewer and fewer
strawberries, though the blossoms are
larger aud larger every spring. On the
ether hand, the female can do nothing
without intercourse with the other sex,
Of course. Harvey's Seeding, so long
the favoritc strawberry of the East, is =
pure female. and bears only when i, has
companions in the bed, as it was almost
sure 30 have few Or none. The English
strawberries are said to be always her
rnaphroditc, which renders it difficult, for
John Bull to believe that there are pure
males and females. Not the least curl
Gus thing is the way in which the male
inpregnstcs the female. lie does it by
proxy, honey bees and other insects play
ing thu eo-bc.ween They carry the
da4, Oh their feet as they fly to the Aow-
err. This fact has been established,
believe beyond eavil, by 4. series of cx-
periments, such as covering some Of the
female plants with gsuze, when they are
'ure to be barren, but begin to do their
dnty the moment the gauzc is removed.
There il, therefore, no need to pu, the
male plants in the same bed with the f.
male, and in practice each is now usually
placed BY itself, from a foot to a yard
.part FROM its coujugal companions. Of
the three varieties jus. mentioned as Mr..
Longworth's seedlings, COW in general
cultivation here, the Superior and Extra
Red are female, and the Prolific is her
naphroditc. - Correspondence Of " T.
Tribune.