174 The Bee People. 
If you sit down near a nice patch of 
red clover, you will be very sure to meet 
a bombus before long. 
She will not disturb you, and you can 
get as close to her as you please, so long 
as you do not touch her. You can watch 
her put her tongue into the little clover 
tubes. She is very fond of red clover, and 
she can get its honey, but the honey-bee 
cannot, because the clover tube is too long 
for Miss Apis’s tongue. The red clover 
depends upon the bumble-bee for fertiliza- 
tion, and an interesting story is told of how 
clover was introduced into Australia. 
There was no red clover in Australia 
until the white settlers took the seed there 
and sowed it. Then the clover grew, but 
bore no seed, so of course it did not amount 
to much. People said, what is the matter 
with the clover; why will it not go to 
seed ? 
I wonder if you could have told them? 
Finally somebody told of the relation be- 
