most of our fruits are made to entice 
bees. Apparently the flowers put out 
all kinds of inducements to attract 
their friends the bees. Some are high¬ 
ly colored, others show little or no col¬ 
or, but are rich with odor, nectar, or 
pollen, or all. Sometimes we find, as 
in the case of fruit trees, color, pollen, 
and nectar, as well as odor. Some flow¬ 
ers even go so far as to put out conven¬ 
ient door steps to attract visitors, as in 
peas and beans. This interlocking re¬ 
lationship is so marked that the rever¬ 
ent student of nature can hardly escape 
the conviction that the animal and 
plant kingdom, whether consciously or 
unconsciously, are working together in 
a friendly conspiracy for the benefit of 
both and for mankind. From the struc¬ 
tural standpoint, what better proof 
could be advanced to show that the 
fruit trees need the bees and the bees 
need the trees, each carrying out its 
own end? 
It is rather significant that there is 
not an experiment station in the United 
States that has not at one time or an¬ 
other mentioned the valuable and al¬ 
most indispensable service performed 
by honeybees in orchards growing ap¬ 
ples, pears, plums, and cherries, and in 
the growing of certain legumes such as 
alsike and white clover, as well as 
sweet clover, cucumbers, etc. All emi¬ 
nent biologists from Darwin down to 
the present time have spoken in the 
highest praise of bees in orchards. The 
proof is so overwhelming that it is al¬ 
most unnecessary to go further in 
showing that the fruit grower can not 
afford to be without bees. 
Practically all bulletins from the 
various experiment stations and from 
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