Contents. ix- 



CHAPTER XXXVI— ARTIFICIAL FERTILISATION. 



Bees the great fruit producers — Inoculated or cross-pollenised — Page. 

 Removal of pollen — Sexual flowers — How to effect inocula- 

 tion of the female flower — How to protect the essential 

 flowers — Instruments to use to effect fertilisation — Hybri- 

 disation — Healthy stameniferous and pistiliferous plants 

 necessary — Bisexual blooms — Double flowers — Plants re- 

 turn to earlier forms — Pollen blooms, the cells of life ; 

 pistillate blooms, the cells of matter — Hybrid plants, how 

 to perpetuate — "Natural orders," illustrations from the 

 poultry yard — Nature' s agents in the production of food for 

 man — Bee par excellence as procreative agents with entomo- 

 philous plants — Handicrafts, illustrated in bee-life — Bee- 

 keepers and orchardists' confederates — Don't check bee- 

 life — Color and perfume of flowers — Ants, bees, and wasps 

 — Sir John Lubbock — Inconspicuous blossoms more attrac- 

 tive than highly colored — Lubbock's experiments — Grant 

 Allen's advertisements — Brilliant foliage v. bright colored 

 flowers — Artificial flowers — The agent that attracts bees — 

 Nasturtium — Double flowers not attractive to bees — Bees' 

 various movements in gathering honey and pollen — Turnip 

 blossoms and lucerne flowers — Poppies — English bees with 

 Australian flowers — Australian white flowers more attractive 

 to bees than bright colors — Bright colors fail to attract 

 imported bees — Australian bee-keepers' experiments . . 274-292 



CHAPTER XXX VII. —COLOR OF FLOWERS AND ITS INFLUENCE 

 ON BEE-LIFE. 



Entomophalous and anemophilous flowers — Sexes among plants 

 — Locomotive powers in plant-life — Difficulties in the way 

 of cross fructification — Nature of pollen — Bees pre-eminent 

 in storing pollen — Preceptive organs of insects — The native 

 bee — Adaptability of flowers to bees and vice versa — Aus- 

 tralian honey plants — Nuptial flight of bees — Refutation of 

 authorities — Lubbock on "Bees, Ants, and Wasps" — 

 Tests inaccurate — Observations in Botanic Gardens — Mr. 

 Baker, Technical Museum — Turnips and lucerne — Darwin 

 on bees' "taste for coloured flowers" — Poppies — Bees neg- 

 lecting to work on certain flowers — Why? — Sign boards 

 and fingerposts a hasty conclusion — Grant Allen — Nastur- 

 tium — Agricultural examination papers — Bees disregard 

 their Old World training when in Australia — Their loss of 

 education after they cross the equatorial line . . . . 293-302 



CHAPTER XXXVIII.— BEE CALENDAR. 



From January to December, inclusive — The work for each 



month 303-313 



