Pollination of plants in exactly the manner desired plays an important part in some of the undertakings of the Grasslands Division of the Plant Research Bureau, and extreme care must be exercised in this direction. Grasses which are pollinated by the action of the wind have to be kept in glasshouses, but clovers, for instance may be ground in the gauze frames which allow them to be cut off from insects, and yet be growing in the open. Bees are the pollinating agents in that case, but only after they have been caught in the field, taken inside and bathed carefully until the pollen grains on their legs have either been washed off or have burst. In some instances, where a large number of plants have to be pollinated, a small hive of bees is shifted inside the glasshouse.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1938, Page 3
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