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POLLENIZATION 



MANY and peculiar are the methods used by flowers 

 to increase the percentage of chance of giving and 

 receiving those tiny golden spheres so necessary to 

 their continued existence. The grasses and many 

 trees depend on the wind, so enormous quantities 

 are produced, trusting that one, it is safe to say, out 

 of 10,000 will reach its desired haven. 



Pollenization is one of those intriguing subjects, 

 something that can be watched without seeing or 

 listened to without hearing or fully understanding 

 its entire reason for being. For many years it has 

 been an accepted fact that to carry on in the higher 

 order of plant life, grains of pollen from the anthers 

 of kindred blossoms, possibly in the same flower, or 

 from another plant or tree (as sometimes male 

 blossoms grow only on separate trees or plants), 

 must be carried by insects, wind, birds, or animals, 

 from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of its 

 own blossom or another. Bees are of the pollen car- 

 riers, seemingly the most intelligent and unremit- 

 ting, in this so necessary work, of all the insect fam- 

 ily. From Bible times down the centuries, these busy 



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