after the bloom is past, he may spray a third time when, if he happens 
to have a cover crop of clover in bloom, the bees suffer again. On the 
other hand the fruit grower finds the honey bee sucking the juice from 
his peaches and grapes and is very angry. The honey bee is innocent 
in this case as she does not bite nor pierce fruit; but when this has 
been done by some other insect or bird, or the fruit has rotted so that 
the juice is exposed, then the honey bee sucks the fruit and, with her 
usual ardor and thoroughness, works away until all the juice is taken; 
she is however working on fruit which would not stand transportation 
to market. 
The growing of cucumbers for pickles is quite an industry, thou- 
sands of acres are planted each year for the pickle factories alone. To 
obtain a crop from these acres hundreds of colonies of bees must be 
at hand, for the stamens and pistils are in different flowers on the 
plant. When cucumbers are grown under glass, hives of bees are 
taken into the green houses. The squash, melon, pumpkin and water- 
melon belong to the same family (the gourd family) as the cucumber 
does and for the same reason need bees. 
The seed producers, who grow white clover, alsike clover, sweet 
clover or alfalfa for seed, must keep bees or grow their crops in the 
neighborhood of some apiary in order to obtain the best results per 
acre. This connection of the honey bee with the production of more 
and better fruit and seed, was not realized by the ancient bee-keeper, 
who thought that bees were created for man alone, to gather the nec- 
tar from the flowers and to make honey for him. "A land flowing with 
milk and honey" the promised land of the Israelites shows this con- 
nection, for where there is honey there will be fruit and vegetables 
and grazing fields, a bountiful land for man and beast. 
Another most wonderful phase of bees in their relation to flowers 
which may be called "bees as builders of flowers" is of interest to 
every gardener. The beautiful flowers that grow in our gardens, which 
are garbed in brilliant hues, are thus adorned to attract insects or 
birds, who will fertilize them. Those flowers which are insignificant 
in color or size, attract by secreting nectar. Some small flowers have 
grown in clusters so that they appear as one large flower, and thus 
show from a greater distance. The color and shape of each flower 
and the position of its nectary is adapted to the special insect which 
can fertihze it, and to aid and hasten this work, the flower has guides 
and signs, which only add to its beauty, and certainly add to our inter- 
est when we understand them. Thus in the violet the veins on the 
lower petal serve as nectar guides, in the foxglove, the corolla is spotted 
on the lower inner side. The flowers of the white clover, after they 
have been visited by a bee and pollenized, bend downward and turn 
