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NE who is unfamiliar with the 
remarkable doings of blossoms 
in association with their insect 
honey -sippers might consider it 
somewhat surprising to attribute 
" manners " to a flower. But who 
that has seen the sage-blossom clap its bee vis- 
itor on the back as she ushers him in at the 
threshold of her purple door, marking him for 
her own with her dab of yellow pollen as she al- 
most pushes him into the nectar feast within ; 
who that has witnessed the almost roguish dem- 
onstration which the tiny andromeda-bell extends 
to the sipping bee at its doorway who that has 
seen these can any longer doubt that blossoms 
have " manners " as well as we bigger, more con- 
