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is absent onl lete y , rTidinientary though the practical or and imperfectl it is result easil y is developed to the "be same distinguished , as rather thoug than h , b there y an entirel ordi were y - deficiency y
long nary ovaries comp , observer yellow in the , pollen that centre , some -bearing to be blossoms fecundated stamens present , but by without a them numerous while the assemblage appearance in others of of a
the cluster middle of ovaries with , no _lookin surrounding g' like a _rninut stamens e green to strawberry shed , upon , them is seen the in
to golden Downing dust , of divide fertilization all strawberries . The growers into three of Cincinnati classesthe , according male or
staminatein , the blossoms of which the stamens are , chiefly developed ; the , female or pistillate , in which the which ovaries the form blossoms the
prinperfect cipal feature . The ; latter and the are hermap given up hrodite to those , in who are skill content in culture with are a lof inferior fruit at the cost of little care or
felossOms that l supp lie first y climate class develop , bears to ing which very into belongs perfect uncertain fruit Myatt crops _' while s British , onl the y Queen p a istillate portion , usuall kind of y the do in _,
near not set a fruit at number all when of staminate planted by lants ; themse so l as ves to , but be dul when y fertilized grown p
there by their produced proper pollen , in bear any larger other crops way . of That much , this finer is berries where no mere than few theory can be is
berries ago proved Mrs hy but . Trollope the in fact which that speciall 6000 the y bushels market noted the of of that Cincinnati poor fruit condition are , now of yearl a the y straw years sold - ;
perhaps is supp , lied any with other them in more the world regularl , except y and in obtained our greater own abundance hydra this -mouthed mode than of
Londonand such a result could only be by , culture , a , In country the largest quantities and finest sorts are
our own enduring grown in memori the nei al ghborhood of this being of Isleworth their -chosen and haunt Twickenham remaining , an in
the sump name tion of of Horace them , may Wal be pole jud ' s ged far-famed by the Strawberry circumstance Hill mentioned . Our con in - at Eniield
the having gallons Gardener been of one ' known s Magazine kind to alone send for 1850 out the 1 Elton , , 200 of one quarter Pine market every -sieves gardener morning , equal to throug 1 , 200 h
, , , the well indeed The season known strawberry if . soil is and comparativel situation belongs y be properl little properl y valued to y adapted cold in the climate to south it , s the , and of more Europe thoug cold h _> ;
or even , bleakthe climatethe more delicious is the berry . It has one range and quality we , namely find , it however , according , a great , l which y power spread , tends of over adapting tq a great give most itself it proportion a abundant wide to circumstances geograp of and the g luxu lobe hical , - , existing where other fruits are
Languidl riating hardihood in y being healthy so vi great gor where as to it Ibrave reigns even almost Arctic unrivalled temperature , , its ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/43/
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