244 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



cases are not strictly analagous,and yet wounds in either the animal or 

 vegetable kingdom are not essential to the well-being of the individuaL 



As to the value of the foregoing, the orchard is hear to bear wit- 

 ness. All admit it to be one of the finest, if not the finest, of its size 

 in this section of country. I have not yet received large returns in 

 fruity bat quite as large as I desire. My object is to grow good, thrifty 

 trees, and the fruit will surely come bye and bje. A few of my trees 

 bore over a bushel each this year, and hundreds had a few apples 

 each. The orchard consists of about 5,000 Ben Davis, 1,000 Willow 

 Twig and 1,000 Jonathan, besides a variety orchard of about 200 trees. 

 This does not include peaches, pears, plums and cherries. 



In conclusion, I will say that the plan given above is the plan I 

 have followed, and not the result of the imagination ; nor is copied 

 from some journal or horticultural report. These rules doubtless can 

 be improved upon, even for this section of country, and must of neces- 

 sity be materially changed for other localities. This plan has been 

 carried out principally by good hired help, my duties in the Chillicothe 

 Normal occupying my time except a sufficient amount to oversee the 

 work. G. A. Smith, Chillicothe, Mo. 



The following paper was presented by J. W. Rouse of Mexico, 

 Mo., and was taken from the American Bee Journal from its report of 

 the United States Bee-keepers Union, Buffalo convention : 



RELATION OF BEES TO HORTICULTURE. 



There is a widespread prejudice against the honey-bee. Why? 1 

 want to explain to you as well as I can in the few minutes allowed me, 

 facts that go to show that the prejudice is unfounded, and that the 

 honey-bee is the greatest friend of the fruit-grower, if not indispensa- 

 ble to successful horticulture. 



There is in plants or flowers what answers to sex in animals. 

 Sometimes both sexes exist in the same flower, sometimes in different 

 flowers of the same plant, sometimes on separate plants. But what- 

 ever the plan of growth, fruitfuluess depends upon the fertilization or 

 pollination of the pistil by the grains of pollen produced on the stamen. 

 The stigma, generally the upper part of the pistil, is a part denuded 

 of the epidermis, touched with a viscid (sticky) substance, and when 

 the proper pollen adheres to this part the pollen puts forth pollen tubes 

 which lengthen till they reach the ovules, which completes fertilization 

 and causes fruit or seed to grow. 



