. The honey-bee; its nature, homes and products. Bees. BEES IN RELATION TO FLOWERS. 257 produce one perfect specimen of the fruit, from 100 to 300 separate fertilisations must be effected. In the raspberry and blackberry again, each drupel, or little fleshy portion, of which very many make up one so-called berry, has had its own stigma, which an insect has visited; and hence again, we understand how it is that the flowers have been so largely endowed with nectar, as to entice the bees most freely to visit them. In apple and pear blossoms we have other instances of the stigmas coming to maturit
. The honey-bee; its nature, homes and products. Bees. BEES IN RELATION TO FLOWERS. 257 produce one perfect specimen of the fruit, from 100 to 300 separate fertilisations must be effected. In the raspberry and blackberry again, each drupel, or little fleshy portion, of which very many make up one so-called berry, has had its own stigma, which an insect has visited; and hence again, we understand how it is that the flowers have been so largely endowed with nectar, as to entice the bees most freely to visit them. In apple and pear blossoms we have other instances of the stigmas coming to maturity before the anthers ;. Fig. 82.—Section of Apple Bloom. and, therefore, they require the intervention of bees for their fertilisation. Peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, greengages, and, we might almost venture to assert, all our choicest and most valuable fruits, are dependent for their perfection upon the busy searchers after honey; and many a market-gardener would greatly increase his chances of good crops of fruit, were he to maintain a few stocks of bees in his orchards, and allow access for the active workers to his trees blossoming under glass-houses. s. 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 Harris, William Hetherington, 1835-. London, The Religious tract society
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