BEES AND RED CLOVER.
Optimistic dreamers have now and again claimed that they had had bees with longer tongues able to reach the nectar in the red clover, but repeatedly ' the claim lias been proved to be a myth. Now some nro attacking the other end of the problem and attempting to reduce tlio length of the petals by selecting and rejecting, and growing seed only from heads with short tubes. SftrT Burbank, of America, a genius in the. art of cultivating new and improved flowcrr., ays the operation will take years of patient' work with unending perseverance, but lie aad other enthusiasts are tackling the problem in the hope that "when thev get bees harvestii>ir nectar on the first bloom all thf.t will then be necessary will be to continue the selection from year to year until a clover is produced that is readily visited by ljees." Let us hope their efforts will be crowned with suecess.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 463, 23 March 1909, Page 2
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158BEES AND RED CLOVER. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 463, 23 March 1909, Page 2
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