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Show SETTING OUT STRAWBERRIES Wind and Insects Render Assistance In Transferring Pollen From One Flower to Another. (By JOSEPH OSKAMP. Indiana Experiment Experi-ment Station.) In Betting out a strawberry patch attention should be given to pollination. pollina-tion. The strawberry flower, A, is devoid de-void of stamens, but bears pistils. It Is called a pistillate (Imperfect) oi female flower. The blossom, B, has both pistils and stamens and is called Strawberry Plants. a stamlnate (perfect) or male variety. Tn B the stamens surround the pistils. They are erect whiUeh filaments, bearing on their ends yellow knob-like organs called anthers. The anthers bear a fine yellow dust known as pollen. pol-len. When a pollen grain falls on a pistil it germinates, sending a sleuder tube-like growth Into the ovule and fertilization is accomplished. Wind and Insects help in the transference of pollen from one flower to another. Many of our best berries are the pistillate pis-tillate sorts. They are very prolific if interspersed every third or rourm row with a stamlnate or female variety vari-ety which blooms about the same time or slightly earlier. |