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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



BEES AND HORTICULTURE. 



[September. 



A. C. MILLER. 



THE DEPENDENCE of the 

 hortic'.lturists upon the bees 

 for full and perfect crops of fruit 

 is only slightly realized. Specialists, 

 to be sure, generally know that with- 

 out the presence of bees they are 



often much handicapped but how much 

 even they have but a meagre idea. 

 Blossoms of some varieties of fruit 

 are sterile to pollen of the same va- 

 riety notably so with the Bartlett pear 

 I believe. Other plants have the fruit 



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