‘‘ The blossom showers fell on April 18, 20 and 21, totalling 1:10 
Inches. 
“The bags and labels were applied on the evening of the 2Ist. 
The experiment commenced on 27th April 1918 and concluded on 
29th April 1913 when the bags were replaced fora week. 
During the course of the experiment the following points were 
noticed :— 
‘A very large number of bees were about owing to large hives 
of Apis dorsata on the cliffs above the estate. Fifteen to thirty bees 
were constantly counted ona single tree by the Government Ento- 
mologist’s fieldman and myself, the proportions of the different kinds 
of bees being about 55 per cent. Apis dorsata, 35 per cent. Apis indica, 
10 per cent. Apis florea, 
“The bees completely nullified the experiments to check fertiliza- 
tion by other insects as they entirely failed to keep to their scheduled 
_ time. For instance, one bee made a determined effort to attack the 
branch I was hand-pollinating at 6 a.m. (experiment 8), For experi- 
ment 5, the bag should be removed at 4 p.m. At 5 p.m.on the 27th 
there were five bees on the experiment tree, viz., three Apis dorsata, 
two Apis indica. ‘This bag had been removed at 4 P.M. 
.“In general I especially noticed bees about from shortly after 
dawn until it was too dark to distinguish them any longer. From 
dawn till 7 a.m. and 4-80 p.m. till dark the majority of the bees were 
not out. 
“The number of other insects compared with bees was negligible, 
A point noticed while cross-pollinating experiment 9 was that flowers 
from a branch of another tree that had been open to insects the day 
before fell when shaken. The experiment branch, which had been 
enclosed in the bag the day before as some of the flowers were not out, 
did not fall when shaken. 
“The two trees selected were healthy young Coorgs, about 10-12 
years old. As they were carrying a heavy crop a lot was pruned off. 
{n spite of this 1 regret to say they developed leaf disease in December, 
and thus to a great extent prevented comparison of the different 
samples. 
‘As will be seen in the tabular statement below the quality 
follows the leaf disease. The branches picked on 7th January were not 
much affected by the leaf disease. The rest were. 
“IT had originally intended to count the berries after the blossom, 
so as to check the loss from the commencement, as should undoubtedly 
have been done. While carrying out the experiment I found it 
impossible to entirely eliminate damage to the flowers by the bags. 
As it was impossible to say accurately what flowers had been knocked 
by the bags, I did not do this. The accompanying table records the 
following points :— 
A. Muslin bag 
B. Mosquito- 
net bag. 
C. Control. 
Column 1. Number and class of experiment. 
ie 2. Time bags were applied. 
3, Date picked. J. 7 Ge Jans 
39 anuar or Ja 9 : 
” 4, Percentage of ripe frint nuary 26, 1914 
