"You know, Norah, that the bees use the pollen of the flowers to feed their young. They collect it by flying from flower to flower, and carry it home in those hollow baskets in the sides of their thighs. You know, too, that they get honey from the flowers. The honey is always found at the very bottom of the flower. The bees cannot get at itwithout forcing aside the stamens, and most likely bursting some of the anthers. But they get both the things they want, and besides this they get dusted all over with the pollen.
"Now comes the wonderful part. Some flowers have a pistil but no stamens. Such flowers could never produce seeds, for they have no pollen tosend into the ovary. Imagine then the bees going about their own work, withouta thought for the flowers, and yet doing the very thing that is wanted for them. They visit a flower and become covered with its pollen; they go to the next, and, while forcing their way in, leave some of that pollen behind, and the whole work is done."SUMMARY
