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very difficult to be certain that the brush is quite 

 free from all foreign bodies. 



The best plan is to pick out with fine forceps 

 an anther from the flower to be used as the male, 

 and with it to touch the stigma of the female flower. 



The fingers and forceps should be continually 

 cleansed with spirit, in order to kill any pollen grains 

 that may adhere to them. By not paying strict 

 attention to these little details, it is so very easy to 

 spoil the results of several months of careful and 

 laborious work. 



" Nature, which governs tne whole, will soon 

 change all things which thou seest, and out of their 

 substance will make other things, and again other 

 things from the substance of them, in order that the 

 world may be ever new." — Marcus Aurelius. 



