PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
The Hazel and the Grasses hang their stamens 
out in the wind in order that it may blow their 
pollen to some other plant, which is waiting 
with feathered pistil to catch it. Most garden 
plants depend on the insects to act as pollen 
carriers and display gorgeous flower-petals 
and nectar pits with which to attract them. 
Many plants aim to prevent self-fertilization 
by having the stamens and the pistil come to 
maturity at different times. 
The plants go to great lengths to secure an 
advantageous distribution of their offspring. 
The nature of a plant is to live by growing. 
When it has reached a prescribed height, it 
must continue the process by producing new 
individuals to carry on the cycle. It gives its 
children a start in the world by providing them 
with wings, bladders, feathers, spikes, thorns, 
sticky secretions, submarines, boats, and kites, 
according to the method of travel they are to 
use. Sometimes the matured pistil or fruit is 
dispersed entire. Sometimes it opens and 
shoots the seeds out. The Violet and Oxilis act 
like veritable guns, so vigorously do they ex- 
pel their seeds. There are seed-capsules, like 
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