. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. 324 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. has failed to grow, because there has been no diver- sion of nutrition towards it. Cutting it across with a knife, we find its hollow cheek lies opposite the unfertilised dissepiment (u, B), containing only shrivelled pips. Pears are less impatient of imper- fect insect action than apples, though the structure of the flower is the same. Amongst small fruits, gooseberries are proterandrous, a


. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. 324 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. has failed to grow, because there has been no diver- sion of nutrition towards it. Cutting it across with a knife, we find its hollow cheek lies opposite the unfertilised dissepiment (u, B), containing only shrivelled pips. Pears are less impatient of imper- fect insect action than apples, though the structure of the flower is the same. Amongst small fruits, gooseberries are proterandrous, and absolutely de- pendent on insects. The failure of this crop is not so uniformly the result, as some suppose, of frost. 1 I'lM^i"' \. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cheshire, Frank Richard, 1833?-1894. London, L. U. Gill


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