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To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1932 the pollinations were made at Geneva, using a Barcelona tree covered with a tightly woven cloth.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association

The number of nuts collected at the time of harvesting compared with the number of female flowers pollinated was taken as a measure of how successful the pollinations were.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

This is the procedure ordinarily used for our controlled pollinations.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association