. Birds and nature . ime. But more of it is carriedto flowers of another plant, by whichmeans cross-fertilization which is best,is effected. It is true and strange thatthe insects always confine themselves tosome particular species on each jour-ney, so no hybrids are produced. If you will wander among your plantsin the twilight you will notice that themost conspicuous flowers are the da-turas, moon flowers, nicotanias and nightblooming cereus. These depend uponmoths for fertilization so they are eithercreamy-white or pale-yellow, which col-ors are most noticeable in the dusk, and,generally, ev
. Birds and nature . ime. But more of it is carriedto flowers of another plant, by whichmeans cross-fertilization which is best,is effected. It is true and strange thatthe insects always confine themselves tosome particular species on each jour-ney, so no hybrids are produced. If you will wander among your plantsin the twilight you will notice that themost conspicuous flowers are the da-turas, moon flowers, nicotanias and nightblooming cereus. These depend uponmoths for fertilization so they are eithercreamy-white or pale-yellow, which col-ors are most noticeable in the dusk, and,generally, evening flowers are very fra-grant. If you will examine them, youwill find that most every flower has anoriginal way of fertilization and of pro-tection after the seed is set. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand. Little flower—but if I could vinderstand What you are, root and all, and all in all, T should know what God and man is. Mary Auck Moylk. 20. 164 DOWNY WOODPECKFK (I )i\()bates piiliesceiisK IlOO, BY A W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO THE DOWNY WOODPECKER {Dryobates piibesce7is.) To most people the mention of wood-pecker brings to mind at once the red-head or the flicker. Everybody is ac-quainted with these birds and knows theday they make their appearance inspring; they announce their coming witha display of color and vociferous cries,the red-head with his clerk or da,re-dare-dare and the yellow-hammer -v^^ithhis flicker, flicker, flicker, and every-one hears and notes those sonorous tap-pings with which they call their few are acquainted withthe one that is in many ways the most in-teresting of them all, the Downy, and ofthose who do know him by sight, he isusually called by a slanderously incrimi-nating name Sapsucker, and his man-ner of life viewed with suspicion. There are few better examples of mod-est worth hidden in obscurity than inthe case of the little Downy. If a
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