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BETTER FRUIT 



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Denney & Company 



DISTRIBUTORS 



Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Prunes 



Before making arrangements for this season's business 

 get acquainted with our record and manner of handling 

 Northwestern Fruits. Several successful seasons make 

 it worth your time to investigate our methods. We are 

 no experimenters and have shown our ability to dispose 

 of our shipments on f.o.b. orders. 



Represented In All Leading Markets 

 Main Office, Chicago, Illinois 



By experimentation extending tlirough 

 a number of years it has been fount! 

 that if many of the ovules in the apple 

 flower fail to become fertilized (which 

 of course results in undeveloped seeds) 

 that the apple will either lack size or 

 symmetry, or both. Since this condi- 



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member of the plant kingdom has modi- 

 fied its structure for the purpose of 

 reaping a benefit from a member of the 

 animal kingdom (in this case the honey 

 bee) as a pollen distributor and has 

 olfered the sweet nectar as a reward. 

 Since the pollination of the apple flow- 

 ers is performed almost solely by the 

 honey bee it behooves the fruitgrower 

 to have bees in abundance in his 

 orchard. It can only be determined ex- 

 perimentally whether or not the num- 

 ber of bees existing in an orchard is 

 sullicient. The experiment may be per- 

 formed by the fruitgrower by placing 

 a hive of bees at one end or in one cor- 

 ner of a large orchard and then ob- 

 serving the amount and shape of the 

 fruit set. This method of determining 

 whether bees are in sullicient abun- 

 dance is of course exi)ensive, for any 

 lack of them results in a shortening 

 of the fruit crop. Hence it is well to 



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insuie against the possibility of loss by 

 keeping a few hives of bees distributed 

 through the orchard. Bees not only 

 will often increase the quality and 

 quantity of the fruit but incidentally 



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tiou is true the fruitgrower should en- 

 deavor to furnish conditions which 

 will cause every flower which is to 

 bear fruit to become thoroughly fer- 

 tilized. To bring about good fertiliza- 

 tion, thorough pollination is absolutely 

 necessary. What does this process of 

 pollination mean to the fruitgrower"? 

 It means that it is a potent factor, first, 

 in the ([uantity of production and, sec- 

 ond, in the size and shape of the fruit. 

 It is a process in which the flowers and 

 tlie bees co-operate for each others' 

 good, a process which is often termed 

 symbiosis. It is a process where a 



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will furnish the fruitgrower with wax 

 for grafting and with honey for the 

 home. 



While bees are necessary in every 

 orchard to carry on the work of pol- 

 lination, successful pollination can 

 only occur where the dilferent varie- 

 ties are set out with reference to the 

 time of blossoming. Only certain vari- 

 eties of apples will poUinize well to- 

 gether. It is therefore obvious that 

 their time of blossoming nuist be the 

 same. In order to produce fruit not 

 only shoidd the time of blossoming be 

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