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One of them dresses itself much like a bee. In this 
way perhaps it secures a visit from the real bee. 
Another is called the baby orchid, because in the 
center of each flower is an object which really looks 
like a fairy baby. 
There are some ten or twelve orchids which are com- 
mon in our Northern woods. I hope you children will 
keep on the lookout for them all summer. 
Just now you could not tell whether or not a flower 
was an orchid. But if you come across a plant whose 
flowers look as though they were built to serve as 
wayside taverns for the bees, why, carry them to your 
teacher, and ask her to find out for you whether they 
belong to the Orchid family. 
But it is only fair to tell you that some of our orchids 
bear flowers so small and insignificant that you would 
hardly guess them to be members of so distinguished 
a family. 
