The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-24
flowers never petrify 50 we have
no record of the FIRST flowers.

HO E0COTu Oh Gne uISb AOWeFh.
Flowers that are sesf-sufficient-
who need no friend-are without
beauty and have neither color nor1
stnel-haye no lure, with which to
gain friends. The flowers that have
need Of friends are provided with the
means of using them, The pines.l
grasses and many others have the
wind for their friend, and are very
prolific Of poilen-tor where one
grain ofpolIen is blown into contact
with the stigma, millions fall to the
Eground. The flowers that lure their
friends through the nose have. per-
fume, and their friends are insects
that are attracted through the sense
of smell ; and while under this infiu-
ence become loaded with pollen.
(which they carry to. and leave in
1contact with the stigma of some
Iother flower Of the same kind. Thus
the carbon flower attracts the blow
fly, because the flower smells like a
dead horse. and the blow-fy likes a
dead horse, and is thus deceived by
the carrion-foWer. Some flowers
use their friends very badly, and the
lcarrion flower is one of them. The
|dog-bane is a highly colored flower
and attracts its friends by the eye,
and it's friends are flies who serve it
as marriage priests andin doing SO,
many are caught in the grooves OF
the flower by their tongues-they
are not tho only ones who get into
trouble by the same means. The
lSouth Carolina Fly catcher uses its
friends very stability, tor 1t lures
them by its beauty, then intoxicates
Them with fluid it secfeses, and
then eats them. The flower is bell
shaped, with highly colored hood
kos-er the mouth of the bell while on
1.-THE rim of the bell is secreted the
whisky, and at the bottom Of the
inverted bell is the gastric juice
(which digests the flies as they fall
into it. There Is an orchid that has
ia sort of trap by which it shoots the
IpoIlcn bearing stem at the head OF
Tits friend which sticking fast is car
ried to the stigma ofthenext orchid
1.-THE mountain laurel has for Its
friend the clumsy bumblebees which
while crawling down the inside Of
1.-THE flower to reach the honey bag,
Icauses the stamen and pistil to come
together, and tnus the pollen is
drought into contact with the stigma
1.-The Boston humble bee is wiser than
I0ther humble bees, just as Boston
Ipeople are wiser than other people
1.-THE Boston humble bee, instead OF
.Igoiag down the inside Of the flower,
lpasses down outside till it reaches
1.-THE position Of the honey bag, then
!, Ipierces the walls of the flower and
thus defeats theintentions ofnatnre.
but all humble bees are not wise
lenough to do this. If they were,
! the orchid would be unable to SET
slits seed and would become extinct.
\ All the beauty of color all the
'Ibeauty ofperfu,ne Of the flower is
mot given because man loves them
'lnot because il will be pleasing to
imam, but because their friends, the
insects are attracted by these, beau
tiles of color. perfume and taste
because the flowers need the assist
lance of these insects, and thus these
lures are held out to draw them,
That they may be used for the propa-
1gation of the plant. IF we would
study mind, we shall find a wide
field il the study of the insect mind !;
examples may be studied in the bee
and the building wasp, and from
these up to the highest manifesto
tons of mind in man. SIS
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