. Botany for young people : Part II. How plants behave ; how they move, climb, employ insects to work for them, & c. Botany. WHY PERFECT FLOWERS NEED TO ATTRACT INSECTS. 21 and are visited by bees. Is their nectar provided only for the good of the bee ? We might suppose so, until we come to know the remarkable fact that, unless visited by insects, they seldom ripen a pod or set a seed. The Showy Dicentra, which comes from Japan or Northern China, rarely sets fruit in our gardens in any case. But the wild species of Corydalis and Fumitory, which have their flowers on the same plan, seed fre
. Botany for young people : Part II. How plants behave ; how they move, climb, employ insects to work for them, & c. Botany. WHY PERFECT FLOWERS NEED TO ATTRACT INSECTS. 21 and are visited by bees. Is their nectar provided only for the good of the bee ? We might suppose so, until we come to know the remarkable fact that, unless visited by insects, they seldom ripen a pod or set a seed. The Showy Dicentra, which comes from Japan or Northern China, rarely sets fruit in our gardens in any case. But the wild species of Corydalis and Fumitory, which have their flowers on the same plan, seed freely enough. Yet when the blossoms are kept covered with fine gauze, so as to exclude insects, little or no seed is produced. Evidently then, for some reason or other, insects sucking their honey are not only useful, but needful even to such blossoms. Why they should be needful remains to be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor
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