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 STRAwBERRIEs.-Ino noticed piece in late number of your paper, upon the cultivation of strawberries, in which the writer appears to doubt whether there are male and female plants. It is known to botanists that all the plants of strawberries have both male and female organs upon each flower. But upon one plant the male organs will so predomi- nate that 1t will rarely bear any fruit; this, for practical purposes, call the male plant. It Is easily distinguished is larger, strong plant has larger and rougher flowers than the other; all the runners from it produce the same kind ofplants, with the like kind of flowers. The male plant being stronger and not reduced by bearing, spreads rapidly over the ground and smothers the bearing plants, and the strawberry bed becomes barren.- Where strawberry beds are mixed in this way, with barren and productive plants, 1t can certainly be told when they arein bloom, what parts of the bed will bear. Let those who would have productive strawberry beds not neglect to set out majority of female plants, whatever may be said by botanists and hortieulturists to the contrary. One male to dozen females will be sufficient MT. Longworth, of Cincinnati, think, first called the attention of the public to the above facts. have known them for about twenty years, and have had productive beds. l have seen beds where single female flower could not be found and in the season for fruit, twenty strawberries could not be found upon rod of ground. l had four different kinds of strawberries brought from your city some years ago, and every plant of each kind was a male plant, consequently they have never produced any fruit worth speaking of.

 $. D. MARTIN.

 CoLBYyILLE, Ky, Jan., lS44.

 Farmers Cabinet.