Seeking Aid of the Bee 



The method of pollenizing on a large scale sometimes 

 employed by Mr. Burbank is to place a branch 0/ wild cherry 

 blossoms, as shown in this picture, on a cultivated tree. The bees will 

 then effect cross-pollenation, and the virile qualities of the wild 

 cherry will be introduced into the strains of the cultivated 

 ones. As in the case oj the hybrid plums, the off- 

 spring of later generations may manifest 

 the good traits of both ancestral 

 strains in combination. 



