Hedgerow Life 
Of course you know that flowers de- 
pend very much upon insects. If there 
were no insects there would not be nearly 
so many flowers. There would be some, 
because many of them are fertilized by 
the wind. When you see bees, and flies, 
and other insects hovering over and 
crawling into the flowers in the fields 
and gardens you know very well that 
they are getting the honey out of them. 
But you may not know that unless they 
came thus for the honey the flowers 
could not exist at all, and that the 
honey is provided as a reward, or as 
an inducement for them to come and 
work for the flowers—or, rather, for the 
plant which bears the flowers. For, 
really, the flower itself is only an 
advertisement to the insects, a sort of 
public-house sign which means to them 
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