INTERESTING FAMILY OF TETOFSKY SEEDLINGS. 409 



feet of a very large Transcendent. One year it bore fourteen bushels 

 of apples. This variety is now called Dartt for short. I have twen- 

 ty-seven varieties of its seedlings on the tree station, nearly all of 

 which are fine looking trees. Many of them have been brought into 

 bearing by girdling. Dartt No. 22 is a beautiful red apple of 

 medium size and good quality. Dartt No. 13 is of full medium size, 

 slightly conical, with long slender stem, and promises to be a keeper. 

 Now that we know that all new seedlings average small and that we 

 may reasonably expect much increase in size in later productions a 

 very interesting field opens up before us. If we plant the seeds of 

 Dartt No. 22 and Dartt No. 13, what shall the harvest be? Shall we 

 get apples as big as pumpkins and that will keep a whole year ? Very 

 likely, for pumpkins do not always grow large, and the Ditus Day 

 seedling keeps two years. 



KEEPING BEES ROR FERTILIZATION. 



A discussion. 



Mrs. H. G. Acklin : Is it advisable and practicable for a horti- 

 culturist to keep a few colonies of bees for the proper fertilization of 

 fruit? 



Mr. Parks : I can give no definite facts, but in a general way 

 I should say it would be. We have kept bees and fruit for thirty 

 years. A few years ago I lost all my colonies but one, and that 

 being very weak I had but few bees, and I had a light crop of fruit. 

 I laid the fact to a considerable extent to the loss of the bees. I 

 should say it was decidedly preferable to have bees for the proper 

 fertilization of fruit. 



Mr. E. R. Pond : I can speak from experience also. I have 

 kept bees all my life, but I know in our neighborhood there are green- 

 houses where they make a practice of keeping a swarm of bees in 

 the greenhouse in order to fertilize the flowers. They have to pur- 

 chase them every fall as it uses a colony up during the winter. They 

 found it profitable to do that, so I think it must be quite profitable 

 to keep bees for fertilizing purposes. 



The President : The first three or four years I was in this 

 territory no one could raise a squash or pumpkin. They are fer- 

 tilized mainly by bumblebees, but there w^ere no bumblebees there 

 then. But after the bees came we had no trouble in raising them. 

 I think Mr. Patten could tell us something about that. 



Mr. C. G. Patten (Iowa) : I have little to say upon the sub- 

 ject as I do not keep any bees, but I should always advise my neigh- 

 bors to keep bees., In a general way we know that pollen is required 



