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The prevailin' wind takes it on to the Johnsons them Swedes that took my Madeline! I hear it! Oh, nights when I can't help myself and in the sunshine I can see it pollen soft golden dust to make new life goin' on to them, and them too ignorant to know what's makin' their corn better! I want my field to myself. What'd I work all my life for?
You see, part of my story wasn't altogether true. Mrs. Pollen or rather, Mrs. Mackintosh left Mackintosh after five years or so. She's in the movies doing very well, I understand. She would; wouldn't she? Of course, she was no good to begin with. But that didn't spoil the point of my story, did it? Good-by, Rhoda, my dear." He was gone. Mrs.
Its descendants would probably inherit a tendency to a similar slight deviation of structure. Thus it might be a great advantage to the hive-bee to have a slightly longer or differently constructed proboscis. On the other hand, I have found by experiment that the fertility of clover depends on bees visiting and moving parts of the corolla, so as to push the pollen on to the stigmatic surface.
In another closely allied species, however, we have a distinct provision which insures the proper approach of the tongue one of many similar devices by which the tongue is conducted directly to one or the other of the pollen discs.
All the seeds we plant in the flower gardens or in the vegetable gardens, and all the grain we sow in the fields, are produced by the help of pollen. All the peas and beans and other seeds we eat owe their existence in part to the pollen, and without it they could not develop.
Through this floating, fusty debris of peat and hay, mixed with the perspirations and warmth of the dancers, and forming together a sort of vegeto-human pollen, the muted fiddles feebly pushed their notes, in marked contrast to the spirit with which the measure was trodden out. They coughed as they danced, and laughed as they coughed.
Nature here is not strong enough for the fructification of the palm, so at given seasons the pollen is removed by cutting off the male spathes; these they dry for twenty hours, and then they take the flower twigs and deposit one or two in each bunch of the female blossom.
When our plant, by this process of the continued preservation or natural selection of more and more attractive flowers, had been rendered highly attractive to insects, they would, unintentionally on their part, regularly carry pollen from flower to flower; and that they can most effectually do this, I could easily show by many striking instances.
The helpful insects of its native country were absent. Then artificial fertilisation with pollen was successfully attempted, and now Réunion supplies most of the vanilla in the world's markets. Think again of all the animals which live in the forest and its outskirts towards the savannahs!
A mother sat alone at an open window. Through it came the voices of the children as they played under the acacia-trees, and the breath of the hot afternoon air. In and out of the room flew the bees, the wild bees, with their legs yellow with pollen, going to and from the acacia-trees, droning all the while. She sat on a low chair before the table and darned.
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