THE BURBANK CHERRY 



THE EXPLANATION OF A DOUBLE 

 IMPROVEMENT 



" T7TOW many assistants have you in your 

 [orchard?" a visitor asked me. 



And when I replied, "About a hun- 

 dred thousand this morning, I fancy," my visi- 

 tor looked quickly this way and that across my 

 eighteen-acre Sebastopol farm, and then seemed 

 politely incredulous. 



"I don't see quite so many," he remarked. "In 

 fact, I can see but eight." 



"Xo," I said, "you don't see them; but you can 

 hear them if you listen. They are mostly up 

 there among the cherry blossoms. Notice how 

 their wings hum as they go from flower to 

 flower." 



"You mean the bees?" 



"Just so; the bees^they are my most impor- 

 tant helpers at this season. I should get no 

 cherry crop without them, and for that matter 

 no plum crop, no apple crop, and very few 



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