. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE POLLINATION OF FRUIT TREES. [9442] Mr. L. G. Corrie's first article on the above subject in your issue of May 3 is most interesting, and makes one anxious to see the continuation, but the list of fertile and sterile apples is rather a short one. The subject is one of con- siderable importance to all fruit growers, and is not sufficiently known outside of professional circles. Many of the best apples are self-sterile, and will produce very poor apples unless fertilised by hees which have had access to other and more fertile kinds. Self-
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE POLLINATION OF FRUIT TREES. [9442] Mr. L. G. Corrie's first article on the above subject in your issue of May 3 is most interesting, and makes one anxious to see the continuation, but the list of fertile and sterile apples is rather a short one. The subject is one of con- siderable importance to all fruit growers, and is not sufficiently known outside of professional circles. Many of the best apples are self-sterile, and will produce very poor apples unless fertilised by hees which have had access to other and more fertile kinds. Self-sterile apple trees unless fertilised by some outside in- fluence, if they bear at all, will only bear small, and often malformed, apples, and would give a poor return for even the cost of planting, let alone the space they take up in the orchard. In planting fruit trees care should be taken, as far as possible, to plant a self-fertile kind next to a self-sterile variety. Extensive ex- periments have been carried out in America in order to find out under which heading the various well-known apples fall, and the following list will amplify that given by Mr. Corrie. Apples, Self-Fertile. - Quarrendeii, Irish Peach. Lord Grosvenor. Stirliim Castle, Lord Derby. Ecklinville, Red Rennette, Keswick Codling, Kino- of Pippins, Peasgood Nonsuch. Self-Sterile, â Lane*s Prince Albert, Beauty of Bath, Lord Sttffield, Ribston Pippin. Worcester Pearmain, (ox Orange Pippin. Allington Pippin. Blenheim Orange, Cellini, Wellington, AYarner's King. Stunners Pippin. Probbaly the Irish Peach, and Peas- good Nonsuch, are two of the most self- fertile apples, and as the latter, at any rate, is a good apple either for eating or cooking, it should be planted liberally in all orchards. Mr. Corrie gives Lord Derby as Par- thenocarpic. but many lists give it as self-fertile. Amongst pears the favourite varieties again appear to be self-sterile, and require the services of the bee to make them pro- ductive
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