There was a time when little value was placed on the sexual differences in the strawberry flower, even where they were recognized. Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, did inestimable service in making the value generally known. Up to his time much greater crops could be produced by growing pistillate kinds, with a few plants of strongly stami-nate kinds set out here and there as a fertilizer than by using the best hermaphrodite then known. But the introduction of the remarkably productive hermaphrodite, Wilson's Albany, remanded, for the time being, Mr. Longworth's endeavors to forget-fulness. But now that the Albany has degenerated, we have no hermaphrodite that is equal in productiveness to some of the pistillates, and it is becoming a question whether we shall not yet have to bring Mr. Longworth's views again to the foreground. We are reminded of this by the following, which we find in some recent proceedings of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society :

"Some varieties require to be grown in hills, and to have the runners cut off as soon as they appear. Such are the Sharpless, Bidwell and Triomphe de Gand. Some are pistillate and require the bi-sexual kinds to be planted near by and to bloom at the same time. Such are the Hovey, Crescent, Jersey Queen and Manchester. For want of proper impregnation these kinds often fail of a crop, but with a suitable companion the pistillate varieties produce very large crops, as did the Hovey forty years ago, and as Mr. Hovey will show us it can do now. Some varieties produce a large number of trusses, and give promise, when in bloom, of extraordinary crops, but do not yield so much as those of less pretentious appearance. There is a limit to the power of production, and where there is a superabundance of trusses of flowers, only a portion will set their fruit and carry it out to perfection without excessive stimulation. Another cause of failure is a deficiency of pollen in some of the bi-sexual varieties, and it is well to plant near them such as are furnished with abundance of it."