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on his neighbor's or upon the wild bees which may abound 

 in the nearby woods. 



I want just to outline the various ways in which bee- 

 keeping is applied to horticulture. There are two or three 

 new phases of this question. For some years, however, 

 bees have been quite indispensible in the market crop of 

 cucumbers which are grown around Boston in the cucumber 

 greenhouses, and at a very conservative estimate there have 

 been 2000, and probably 2500 or more, colonies of bees put 

 into the cucumber greenhouses around Boston, a condition 

 which is particularly local and almost peculiar to Massachu- 

 setts. Very few other states utilize any such number of 

 bees in a particular horticultural pursuit. 



This opens up a view of beekeeping in Massachusetts 

 which is also peculiar to this (state, namely, that there must 

 be beekeepers to supply this demand ; and I am sorry to say 

 that Massachusetts men are not holding up t*heir end, be- 

 cause we know they are buying numbers from New Hamp- 

 shire constantly, and even from southern localities. 



Another use -of bees in Irorticulture is, of course, in the 

 orchard, and I will show on the screen some orchards in 

 which bees are kept. 



Another utility is in raspberry grov,^ing or small fruit 

 growing, and that has been recognized. 



Up and down the Connecticut Valley here, and else- 

 where, those who grow cucumbers for pickling purposes — 

 and it is by no means a small industry — are maintaining 

 bees or borroMnng from neighboring apiarists, in order to 

 secure the crops of little cucumbers. 



Right here in the vicinity of Springfield is a melon 

 grower who ships his product to the most important hotels 

 in the country and who produces annually a large crop. 

 He told me that it cost him practically $2.50 per colony, and 

 he uses two colonies a year, and he is able thereby to secure 

 the maximum crop of melons. 



One of the recent adaptions of the industry in horticul- 

 ture is in cranberries. The cranberry crop is worth at a 

 conservative figure, at least $1,000,000 a year to the state, 

 and perhaps even more. Through the work of Doctor 

 Franklin of the Cranberry Experiment Station Bog at South 



