The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination . Fig. 118. Brighton Grape Pollinated by 1, Salem; 2, Creveling; 3, Lindley; 4, pollen of another vine of the same variety;5, self-pollinated; 6, by Nectar; 7, Jefferson; 8, Niagara; 9, Worden; 10, Vergennes; 11,Rochester. (After Beach) 273 THE FLOWER AND THE BEE. Fig. 119. Strawberry. Fragaria virginiana produced. Thousands of acres of cucumbers are every yeargrown in the fields for pickle-factories, and the crop is whollydependent on the visits of bees. In a word, without insect-pollinators we should have no cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins,or
The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination . Fig. 118. Brighton Grape Pollinated by 1, Salem; 2, Creveling; 3, Lindley; 4, pollen of another vine of the same variety;5, self-pollinated; 6, by Nectar; 7, Jefferson; 8, Niagara; 9, Worden; 10, Vergennes; 11,Rochester. (After Beach) 273 THE FLOWER AND THE BEE. Fig. 119. Strawberry. Fragaria virginiana produced. Thousands of acres of cucumbers are every yeargrown in the fields for pickle-factories, and the crop is whollydependent on the visits of bees. In a word, without insect-pollinators we should have no cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins,or melons. (Fig. 107, page 233.) 274 BEES AND FRUIT-GROWING It is an indisputable fact that a great number of trees andshrubs will not produce fruit unless cross-pollinated by first this service was performed by our native species; butwith the planting of orchards by the square mile their numberbecame wholly inadequate to pollinate efficiently this vastexpanse of bloom. This difficulty is met by the introduction ofcolonies of the domestic bee. No other insect is so well adaptedfor this purpose. In numbers, diligence, perception, andapparatus for carrying the pollen it has no equal. In orchardafter orchard the establishment of apiaries has been followedby astonishing gains in the fruit-crop; and to-
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