160 LIFE OF A TREE, 
separate trees. ‘Then comes the question, How 
is the yellow powder to be carried from the one 
to the other? Unless it is conveyed in some way 
or other, the seeds will never ripen. This diffi- 
culty, in common with every other of a similar 
kind in creation, has been beautifully provided 
for by God, who, when He created the world, 
and its animal and vegetable tenants, knew the 
**end from the beginning,” and ordered all things 
so as to accomplish their proper parts in His 
all-wise plan. 
The answer may well excite our surprise. The 
important yellow powder is carried from the one 
to the other, chiefly either by the winds or by 
insects, and sometimes by man himself. Doubtless 
the hairy coat of the industrious bee was a special 
contrivance, intended, among others, to effect this 
end, which is of so much consequence to plants. 
Mark how the ever-industrious insect plunges 
into a flower, and is for a while lost in its painted 
recesses. After buzzing about for a few seconds, 
see her emerge as dusty as a miller, all powdered 
over with the yellow pollen. Away she flies. 
The next flower to which she wings her way, is 
perhaps one that only possesses a stigma; and 
