The English gardening periodicals are still arguing whether there really are bearing and non-bearing strawberry plants; some contending that their strawberry beds occasionally become barren. The English climate is probably more favorable to the production of perfect stamens and pistils than America. Here it would be comical for any one to argue that there were not plants with sexes separate in the strawberry. Purely pistillate strawberries are among the commonest of experiences, in a wild as well as in a cultivated state.