THE BURBANK CHERRY 



THE EXPLANATION OF A 

 DOUBLE IMPROVEMENT 



HOW MANY assistants have you in your 

 orchard?" a visitor asked me. 

 And when I replied, "About a hundred 

 thousand this morning, I fancy," my visitor 

 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." 



"No," 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 flower seeds. 



[VOLUME II CHAPTER VII] 



