It has been said that no winged insects have been seen visiting grape blossoms. This season, white hoeing near a grape vine, I heard the humming of a bumble bee and went to the vine to see what it was doing. I saw first one of those small bees that burrow, some in the ground and some in the dead stalks of plants, and because some of the species burrow in dead mullein slalks, they are, in this section, indiscriminately called mullein bees. This bee was at work on the grape blossoms, flying from cluster to cluster with all the nervous eagerness that is characteristic of bees while gathering food. The bumble bee I saw alight on a cluster of blossoms and crawl around it two or three times, but with moderation, as if her visit there was experimental I at once went to another vine and there saw two of the "mullein" bees eagerly at work on the blossoms. Surely these three bees alone could have pollinated hundreds of blossoms in one day, even though some of them were a mile apart.--J. T. Macomber.