Midsummer 



which are finally crowned with a large, 

 oblong, thimble-Hke head of fruit. 



Banked in hollows of the hillside are 

 tall, nodding wands of willow - herb or 

 fire-weed, with delicate flowers of intense 

 purple - pink. Each blossom contains 

 both stamens and pistil, but these mature 

 at different times, and so-called ''self- 

 fertiHzation " is prevented. The pollen 

 is discharged from the stamens while the 

 immature pistil is still bent backward, 

 with its stigmas so closed as to render it 

 impossible for them to receive upon their 

 surfaces a single quickening grain. Later 

 it erects itself, spieading its four stigmas, 

 which now secure easily any pollen which 

 may have been brushed upon the body of 

 the visiting bee. These flowers are so 

 large and are visited so constantly by 

 bees that any one who chances upon the 

 plant can witness speedily the whole per- 

 formance. 



Here are raspberry bushes covered 

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