. Australian bee lore and bee culture : including the influence of bees on crops and the colour of flowers and its influence on bee life. Bees; Bee culture. 258 AUSTRALIAN BEE LORE AND BEE CULTURE. are of common occurrence, more especially with apples and pears. This is caused by imperfect pollenisation. It is clearly observable in the accompanying diagram : a section of an apple showing the five sections of the ovary, with four of the ovules of seeds, marked /', perfectly fertilised, and on the sides of the fruit, where the seeds are so fertilised, it is perfect in form. The unfertilised seed
. Australian bee lore and bee culture : including the influence of bees on crops and the colour of flowers and its influence on bee life. Bees; Bee culture. 258 AUSTRALIAN BEE LORE AND BEE CULTURE. are of common occurrence, more especially with apples and pears. This is caused by imperfect pollenisation. It is clearly observable in the accompanying diagram : a section of an apple showing the five sections of the ovary, with four of the ovules of seeds, marked /', perfectly fertilised, and on the sides of the fruit, where the seeds are so fertilised, it is perfect in form. The unfertilised seed in the ovary, marked u, has caused the deformation in the fruit. If, in four out of the five sections seen in the ovary of apples and pears, the seeds therein are perfectly fertilised, the fruit is likely to develop, although it will be a deformity; but if only three be so fertilised the fruit seldom comes to perfection. The light seeds, those without kernels, that are frequently met with in pump- kins and other members of that family, are caused in a similar way—, by the bees being prevented by some cause from supply- ing a sufficiency of pollen to do the whole work necessary in re- The matrimonial ceremonies—how they marry and are given in marriage—is the portion of the subject I here wish to deal with. The arrangements of the sexual reproductive organs and their various functions have already been dealt with. There is nothing more interesting in the life-history of the vegetable kingdom than the methods and agencies of its repro- duction. Fascinating as it is, it is too often the stumbling-block of amateurs, whose love of plant-life carries them to look into the deeply-hidden mysteries of this absorbing subject. The sexuality known to exist in blossoms, their matrimonial instincts, their marriage ceremonies, their domestic ties, their methods of raising and perpetuating their families and co-relations, the offciating and conjugating priests, and the a
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