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THe CLOVER’S TRICK 
ERE you see the bees buzzing about the pretty 
pink clover heads, —the sweet-smelling clover that 
grows so thickly in the fields of early summer. 
Can you tell me what plan the clover uses in flower 
building ? 
You will not find this easy to do. Indeed, it is hardly 
possible, for the clover plays you a trick which you will 
not be able to discover without help. 
You believe, do you not, that you are looking at a 
single flower when you look at a clover head? 
Well, you are doing nothing of the sort. You are 
looking at a great many little clover flowers which are 
so closely packed that they make the pink, sweet- 
scented ball which we have been taught to call the 
clover blossom. 
It is incorrect to speak of so many flowers as one; 
and whenever we say, “‘ This is a clover blossom,” really 
we ought to say, “These are clover blossoms.” We 
might just as well take a lock of hair—a lock made up 
of ever so many hairs— and say, “This is a hair.”’ Now, 
