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stone, that we find the earliest traces of the 

 rose family, the greatest fruit-bearing tribe of 

 our present world. And side by side with 

 them we find their clever arboreal allies, the 

 ancestral monkeys and squirrels, the primi- 

 tive robins, and the yet shadowy forefathers 

 of our modern fruit-eating parrots. Just as 

 bees and butterflies necessarily trace back 

 their geological history only to the time of 

 the first honey-bearing flowers, and just as 

 the honey-bearing flowers in turn trace back 

 their pedigree only to the date of the rudest 

 and most unspecialised honey-sucking insects, 

 so are fruits and fruit-eaters linked together in 

 origin by the inevitable bond of a mutual 

 dependence. No bee, no honey ; and no 

 honey, no bee : so, too, no fruit, no fruit-bird ; 

 and no fruit-bird, no fruit. 



