. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. Ijuly'n Slipper niul Ue enterlii({ for .-iml piiHcn union a distant stock promotes binh health and vigor. Hence the great gain which has come to plants by the wind .as their matchmaker,—as every sum- mer shows us in its air. the oaks, the pines, the cottonwoods, and a host of other commit t(. the breeze the winged atoms charged with tiie continuance of their kind. ), long as the \\ ind lias been employed at this work, it has ncn yet
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. Ijuly'n Slipper niul Ue enterlii({ for .-iml piiHcn union a distant stock promotes binh health and vigor. Hence the great gain which has come to plants by the wind .as their matchmaker,—as every sum- mer shows us in its air. the oaks, the pines, the cottonwoods, and a host of other commit t(. the breeze the winged atoms charged with tiie continuance of their kind. ), long as the \\ ind lias been employed at this work, it has ncn yet learned 'o do it well; nearly all the pollen enirusied to it is waste<l, and this while its severely upon the stren'.jth of a plant. .\s good fortune will have it, a llowers i lose to 'heir pollen yield an ample supply of ncciar: a food esteemed delicious by die whole roimd of insects w igcdand wingless. While ants might sip this nectar for agi ^ without jjlants being any the better or the worse, a very dilVerent residt has followed up( n the visits of bees, was)is, and other hairy-coated callers. These, as they devour nei dust themselves with the pollen near by. Yel- lowed or whiteneil with this freightage, moth and buttertly as diey through the air know not that they are 'ig the banns of between two blossoms .teres or, t may be, miles apart. Vet so it is. .Alightingon a new llower the insect rubs a polle:i grain on a stigma ready to receive it, and lo 1 the rites of matrinicuiy are solenni^ed tiicn and there. I'nwitlingly the little visitor has wrought a task bigger with fite than an ai t hnidly trumiieted among the mighliesi deeds of men ! In (Mir illustration of the 's Slipjicr a. bee is de- tected in the .act of entrance. In the Sagc-tlowcr he finds an anther of the stamen whii h, jiivoted on its spring, dusts him even more effectually. Inn and Inn-sign. I'.oiiiililiilly to spread a is inu
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