. True manhood : a manual for young men . on your face when in smelling a flower you put yournose too deep among the petals, and what insects geton their wings when they fly into the cup after thehoney and the dew. It would astonish you to look at these dots orspecks of pollen dust through a microscope. Youcould hardly believe that what you then see wouldbe like one of the figures below, or some othersquite as surprising; but it is true. Different plantsproduce differently shaped pollen grains. The inside of the grainswould appear equally as-tonishing. They are filledwith a watery fluid in whi
. True manhood : a manual for young men . on your face when in smelling a flower you put yournose too deep among the petals, and what insects geton their wings when they fly into the cup after thehoney and the dew. It would astonish you to look at these dots orspecks of pollen dust through a microscope. Youcould hardly believe that what you then see wouldbe like one of the figures below, or some othersquite as surprising; but it is true. Different plantsproduce differently shaped pollen grains. The inside of the grainswould appear equally as-tonishing. They are filledwith a watery fluid in whichfloat an immense number ofgrains or granules, and howvery small they must be ascompared with the pollen Pollen magnifi-ed grain hundred times as large as jf ^^j^ jj ^ bloSSOm nature. , . i i i . , to pieces and look m theovary very soon after it spreads its petals and beforeany pollen comes on the anther, you will see somevery small spots or beginnings of seeds. They willcontinue to increase in size as the flower blooms, but. TRUE MANHOOD, ^^ unless they receive this pollen they will not ripenand be able to sprout. While young and soft and be-fore the pollen reaches them, they are called ovules. The wind that is constantly bending the flowersshakes the ripe pollen upon the stigmas, which underthe magnifying lens is seen to be full of little open-ings just adapted to receive the grains—differentlyshaped in various flowers, to correspond with thedifferently made pollen. It slides down the style andlodges among the ovules in the ovary, and in somemysterious way, not fully understood, the ovules arechanged into seeds. Thus we see the two kinds of life in plants; themother life and the father life. The ovules are fullof the mother life, and the pollen full of the father lifeof the plant, and a seed contains them both. Ovulesare half seeds, and pollen grains are half seeds, andit takes them both to make a whole seed. Or, putting it another way, pollen dust is seed;alon
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