. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 527 CONDUCTED BY Rev. Emerson T, , St. Joseph, AIo. Bees and Pollen.—" If bees carry pollen from bloom to bloom of the orange and peach, as they do in many other kinds of fruit, why does not the seed produce trees bear- ing different varieties of fruit ?"—Mrs. Haeeison, on page 391. Because in many cases the pollen of one variety is not potent on the other, but in some cases it is. A gentleman told the writer of a circumstance where a person planted ten apple seeds in pots in the house, the seeds all be
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 527 CONDUCTED BY Rev. Emerson T, , St. Joseph, AIo. Bees and Pollen.—" If bees carry pollen from bloom to bloom of the orange and peach, as they do in many other kinds of fruit, why does not the seed produce trees bear- ing different varieties of fruit ?"—Mrs. Haeeison, on page 391. Because in many cases the pollen of one variety is not potent on the other, but in some cases it is. A gentleman told the writer of a circumstance where a person planted ten apple seeds in pots in the house, the seeds all being taken from one apple. The trees produced from these ten seeds bore as many different varieties of fruit as there were trees. The peaches produced from the seed would be nearly like the ones from which the seeds were taken, provided they were not grafted or budded fruit. In that case, of course, they would be like the fruit of the root upon which the graft was made. This, however, could not be absolutely true, if fertil. ized by pollen from a blossom of a different variety, as the female germ must be influenced more or less by the male germ with which it unites. The resulting fruit should be more or less modified by the combination of the two potent forces. Theoretically, at least, this should influence the seed some- what; and, if there is any truth iu the circumstance men- tioned above, this is true practically. In fact, if I mistake not, there is a berry grown in California, called the " Logan Berry," which is the result of a cross between the blackberry and the raspberry. *» Large Blue Flag.—Though this flower is of no special importance to the bee-keeper as a honey-plant, yet we think the readers of the Bee Journal will be interested in what Mrs. Starr Dana has to say about it in her book, "How to Know the Wild Flowers," which was reviewed in this depart- ment on page 495. I make the following extract: " For the botanist the blue flag
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