Identifier: flowerbeeplant00love (find matches)
Title: The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Lovell, John Harvey, 1860-1939
Subjects: Fertilization of plants
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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anding blossoms-The great masses of flowers form billowing banks of whiteness,tinged with rose and flecked with the vivid green of the un-folding leaf-buds, from which exhales the well-known sweetfragrance of the apple-blossom. Spring walks abroad in all the fields to-day; Her touch has left the apple orchards white;The baby buds that waited for the May Have shaken out their petals overnight;Against the rugged boughs they softly press. Weaving in the mantle of their loveliness. Spring walks abroad with songs of life and cheer; A thousand gifts she joyfully bestows;But all her fairest handiwork is here Where orchards toss their drifts of scented snows. Alfred Russel Wallace, who spent many years of his life inexploring the vast forests of the Amazon and the islands of theMalay Archipelago, declares: I have never seen anythingmore glorious than an old crab-tree in full blossom; and thehorse-chestnut. Hlac, and laburnum will vie with the choicesttropical trees and shrubs. (Fig. 109.) 239
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Fig. 109. Button-Bush. Cephalanthus occidentalisA handsome swamp-shrub with small white flowers in dense spherical heads

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