1 74 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- 



