

Grafting Seedlings. — "Will graft over 100 new seedlings, so that 

 next season I will have 1,000 grafted varieties on trial." 

 Owatonna, Feb. 26, 1897. E. H. S. Dartt. 



Question. — "Referring to the fruit list for 1897, I would like to ask 

 which kinds of pistillate strawberries should be planted with the 

 staniinates in order to get the best results? I suppose the kinds 

 ought to blossom together." A. H. Roseboom. 



Rosemary Farm, March 18, 1897. 



Answer.— The Bederwood is the safest pollenizer to use for the 

 Crescent, and does very well for the earliest bloom of the Warfield, 

 but we think the Lovett is inore reliable for the whole season. The 

 Lovett and Enhance are the best for the Haverland. Do not think 

 the Capt. Jack and Wilson were recommended so much because of 

 their value as pollenizers of other varieties as for the fact that they 

 generally self-pollenize and bring a fair crop of fruit. Bederwood 

 and Crescent; Bederwood, Enhance and Haverland, and alternate 

 the pollenizers, is the way I should plant to get the best results. 



J. S. Harris, La Crescent. 



A Plea for the Honey Bee. — "I have found every number of the 

 "Horticulturist" the past year very interesting, and after reading 

 them have given them to some neighbors, accompanied with a note 

 to read and then give to another. 



"I wish to emphasize some statements made by John Turubull in 

 his article on apiculture in the December number, by giving my ex- 

 perience. I came to this county, Stevens, in the fall of 1880. I found 

 the soil rich and productive, and I made preparations for planting 

 fruit trees, shrubs and seed of the vines. I had no trouble in rais- 

 ing fruit from the garden, such as currants, gooseberries and the 

 like, but the fruit of the vines, squash, pumpkin and melon, were a 

 total failure. I tried three years with the eame result, and on in- 

 quiry I found the}'^ were a general failure in the county. In conversa- 

 tion with an old man I was telling him of my disappointment in not 

 being able to grow my favorite fruits of the vine — I had squash and 

 pumpkin vines thirty or forty feet long and no fruit on them. He 

 told me if I would get a swarin of honey bees I would have no more 

 trouble of this kind. But thecountry was sparingly settled, treeless, 

 and nothing but wild flowers for bees to work on, and I thought 

 bees could not live here. I knew that bees would fertilize fruit, but 

 I had never given the subject much thought. After considering the 

 subject, I resorted to artificial fertilizing with good success, so 

 much so that my exhibits at the county fair were a surprise and 

 the admiration of all. I followed this method for three years. 



