. Clover culture. Clover. [from old catalog]. 124 CLOVER CULTURE. able to understand fully the structure of the blossom of red clover, and the method of pollination with the further aid of the illustration herewith presented. Fig-ure 1 in the illus- tration represents the floret, or one of the minute flowers ol which the clover head is made up, separated from the head, and viewed from below. Figure 2 represents the same flower •with the larger petal stripped off and viewed from above. The calyx of which Prof. Pammel speaks is marked a in fig- ures No. 1 and 2 in the illustration. Im- mediately
. Clover culture. Clover. [from old catalog]. 124 CLOVER CULTURE. able to understand fully the structure of the blossom of red clover, and the method of pollination with the further aid of the illustration herewith presented. Fig-ure 1 in the illus- tration represents the floret, or one of the minute flowers ol which the clover head is made up, separated from the head, and viewed from below. Figure 2 represents the same flower •with the larger petal stripped off and viewed from above. The calyx of which Prof. Pammel speaks is marked a in fig- ures No. 1 and 2 in the illustration. Im- mediately above it is the corolla, or what is usually called the blossom, marked h, made up of five parts known as petals. The bearer or vexil- lum is the upper, larger petal, marked c in figure 1, while 6 represents the lower border of a wing oi small petal bent out- wards, f its outer surface and g a pouch swelling at its base. The lower petals form what is described by Prof. Pammel as the keel or carina, and in figures 1, 2 and 3 are marked h. Figure 5 represents the right half of the carina or keel, from without, while figure 4 represents the right wing or side petal from within, the claws in both being broken off short. Fig- ure 6 represents the pistil, /, and stamens, w, without which no flower can exist, and, hence, called the essential organs. They are found emerged from the depressed keel. It will thus be seen that gravitation of itself would cause the pollen from the stamens to fall away from instead of towards the pistil, or part to be fertilized. This explains why insect fertilization is necesssary. Let us now see how a bee fertilizes clover. It clings with its fore. legs to the wings, or lateral petals, resting its middle and hind legs on the lower part of the flower, the keel and wings are drawn down to the stamens and the anthers are thrust up against the underside of the bee's head as described by Prof. Pammel above. In going to another flower it carries the pollen wit
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