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While the honeybee is a less-effective pollinating insect 
for muscadine than for fruits with sticky pollen, such as apples, 
it appears_to_have sufficie nt value to_w arrant placing stands of b ees 
in large vineyards during the blossoming; season - 
Muskmelon 
Beattie, W. R. 
1S26. Muskmelons. U.S. Dept . Agr. Farmers' Bui. 1468, 38 pp. 
p. 21: Growers frequently inquire why the early blossoms 
on their muskmeions do not set fruit. Muskmelon blossoms are of two 
kinds, staminate and pistillate, or male and female. Following the 
natural tendency of all vine crops, a large number of male blossoms 
appear in advance of the vines to set fruit. At the base of the 
pistillate or female blossom is located the small embryonic melon formed 
before the blossom opened, and it is necessary that the pollen from the 
male flowe r b e transfer re d by bee s or othe r insects to the female 
flower. Where me lo ns are grown in greenhouses or in closed frames it 
is essential that provis ion be made for th e entrance of bees in order 
that the pollen be transferred . 
Peach and Nectarine 
Cullinan, F. P. 
1937. Improvement of stone fruits. U.S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1937: 
665-748. 
p. 675: The nectarine was formerly thought to be a different 
species from the peach. It is now known that the nectarine is simply 
a smooth-skin peach. The trees differ in no respect from the peach, 
and it is impossible to tell a peach tree from a nectarine tree. 
p. 595: Most varieties of peaches are self-fruitful. Occasion- 
ally failure to produce crops may be due to pollen sterility, which is 
exhibited in a few commercial varieties, such as J . H. Hale, Halberta, 
Candoka, Mikado, and Chinese Cling. 
Marshall, R. E., Johnston, Stanley, Hootman, H. D., and Wells, H. M. 
1929. Pollination of orchard fruits in Michigan. Mich. Agr. Expt . Sta. 
Spec. Bui, 188, 38 pp. 
p. 29: A J. H. Hale psach orchard favorably located on the 
Friday Bros. Farm near Coloma and containing a few scattering trees 
of other varieties had produced but a few fruits since planting in 
1917. When it was learned that this variety was self-sterile, South 
Haven and Elberta trees were p \ in the vacancies as pollinizers 
for the J. H. Hale. In spite of this provision the orchard produced 
less than 10 bushels of peaches in 1926. Before the succeeding blos - 
soming p eriod.. 20 colonies of bees were 1 in the orchard and it 
produced the first crop of fruit in 11 years . 
