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The Bee People. 



The most interesting thing we have 

 learned in modern times about bees is 

 their relation to the flowers. Some plants 

 cannot set seeds at all without the help 

 of the bees, and they are very great helpers 

 in gardens and orchards. 



If you want your trees loaded with 

 apples and pears, be sure to put a bee- 

 hive near the orchard. 



Near Boston, where a great many cucum- 

 bers are raised for market in the winter 

 in glass houses, hives of bees are kept 

 in the houses to fertilize the cucumbers. 

 If the little bees did not go from flower 

 to flower carrying the pollen from one to 

 another, a large force of men would have 

 to be employed to brush the pistil of 

 each cucumber blossom with pollen. 



