Show I 1 OF THE strawberry cincinnati aug 1852 to the me editors of the ae plough the tb loom and the anvil ro epple in burlington county N jersey must be behind the age in iho fee cultivation of tho the strawberry you Y ou say gay 11 jason heritage sold quarts which ifor formed ined one picking and were sold at firt fifty acts per quart guart the same thing was done in these back woods years ago one individual now mugs brings quarts loarts a day and andis is satisfied it if he gets sevah en or eight cents per quart often far less tt awen Z ty five years ago we were lea learned RT nod botanists and held aa straw strawberry berky pl plants auto ithai bare blossoms perfect in both male and female organs and raised a quarter of a crop we now hold a diffie different rent doctrine and plant oolite to twenty plants we haec adnew seedling surpassing all plants that I 1 have ever seen and ono one I 1 never expected to see a plant perfect in bi both male awe ano and bem fem female ale organs that has for five years produced a afuli fall crop of large perfect wet wel flavored fruit chave never seeli seen one of the celebia feda enoch ones ones that gouid would vou Id average ohe obe chii dof d of a crop of p perfect berfect fruit iwas awas recently at newark N jersey and was at gardens adens where tha strawberry was cultivated extensive exten fisik sivy afy for forta market arket the They were not informed of the the sexual chir character acter of plants I 1 saw several beds of turns new pine with not bild berry to fifty blossoms and the gardner deemed it ftp ph imposition he had no other variety within fifty acty foot foci in iii his bis principal beds he fortunately lylha anong his bis Hovey nd distillates Pistil lates had a new seedling hermaphrodite gaisea rai seby byyny my sister in newark of bf which more than one half of the blossoms bore perfect fruit and the blossoms were so abundant that the th quantity tit 4 y of f fruit was as large as the roots alfild r render el deyp perfect er fact strange is as it may appear apkar even in england the true sexual character char acter of the plant was un unknown mr keen th the originator of the affie celebrated hermaphrodite that bears his name discovered that one oae of ois bis seedlings perfected no fruit seeing no the blossoms he be set sat one with stamens stamens near it and the vine vine bore a full crop Hape he reported porte 4 the case to the horticultural society but n no further notice was Ss dign of lit it ln in raising from seed one half are brally wholly defective it in female organs and not nol gel oil ono blosom ln in one thousand will bear a perfect fruit all require artificial impregnation rt it is done by insects put pat one hundred plants in a forcing department na pt of plants perfect in both male arid and bem fem demala ale organs au and ff authere there be rm insects nt abot one blossom in fifty will be bear ar fruit in such cases mois the impregnation may ke bo made bya by a brush where the air is stirring atinay ay impi impregnate egnate a few thirty years since q adjacent d ati to our oar city an ignorant german made a for fortlage b by raising strawberries st raw berries for market they were the largest and finest pt in iii market and brought fro from in to fifty cents per quart the same quantity of ground round produced five tims as much fruit as was I 1 neighbors I 1 had one eighth of an acre dinv inv in i aau and yent to the german aman to buy fruit his neigh neighbors bori picked up the plants cants ho he threw on the out his plants and they proved babit barren A chance woe observation of the Gerr germans nans son led on MB to s suspect c t the cause I 1 discovered the sexual biffl difference arence made it known strawberries went as low ha firo lind a six six i cents per quart and the german maa acci ceased to cultivate them and raised vegetables abustan I 1 I 1 iii his s son and he helping donner idonier un wid d blitzen on may head hailing from what was once the land of rye to seethe see tho price of ries in th that qt state U longworth LoNgwo nTH |