This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V18", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The Bos ton Cultivator says: "What we would like to learn from our readers in the sections of New England where it abounds, is, does it fruit Who will send specimens to Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., as he desires? In collecting and preserving fruiting specimens, care should be taken not to de tach the style. Prof. Gray is studying the hetero morphous condition of this plant. Whoever will help Prof. Gray to settle what is supposed to be abnormal will aid in advancing botanica science.
 
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