. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page i6 BETTER FRUIT Julx Denney & Company DISTRIBUTORS Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Prunes Before making arrangements for this season's business get acquainted with our record and manner of handling Northwestern Fruits. Several successful seasons make it worth your time to investigate our methods. We are no experimenters and have shown our ability to dispose of our shipments on orders. Represented In All Leading Markets Main Office, Chicago, Illinois By experimentation extending tlirough a number of years it has been fount! that if many of the ovule
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page i6 BETTER FRUIT Julx Denney & Company DISTRIBUTORS Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Prunes Before making arrangements for this season's business get acquainted with our record and manner of handling Northwestern Fruits. Several successful seasons make it worth your time to investigate our methods. We are no experimenters and have shown our ability to dispose of our shipments on orders. Represented In All Leading Markets Main Office, Chicago, Illinois By experimentation extending tlirough a number of years it has been fount! that if many of the ovules in the apple flower fail to become fertilized (which of course results in undeveloped seeds) that the apple will either lack size or symmetry, or both. Since this condi- Sa '""^'-^y^. PUVeB Osborne member of the plant kingdom has modi- fied its structure for the purpose of reaping a benefit from a member of the animal kingdom (in this case the honey bee) as a pollen distributor and has olfered the sweet nectar as a reward. Since the pollination of the apple flow- ers is performed almost solely by the honey bee it behooves the fruitgrower to have bees in abundance in his orchard. It can only be determined ex- perimentally whether or not the num- ber of bees existing in an orchard is sullicient. The experiment may be per- formed by the fruitgrower by placing a hive of bees at one end or in one cor- ner of a large orchard and then ob- serving the amount and shape of the fruit set. This method of determining whether bees are in sullicient abun- dance is of course exi)ensive, for any lack of them results in a shortening of the fruit crop. Hence it is well to Anfhtr insuie against the possibility of loss by keeping a few hives of bees distributed through the orchard. Bees not only will often increase the quality and quantity of the fruit but incidentally flla mi its Twrtis. tiou is true the fruitgrower should en- deavor to furnish conditions which will cause every flower
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