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NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 14:5— May, 1918 



When we are in the garden and see bumblebees visiting our 

 flowers, let us note the following things : A bee visits for a period 

 of time the same species of flowers and does not go from one kind 

 to another. If she did, she would not be carrying the right kind 

 of pollen to serve her flower friends. Some flowers she enters 

 back up and some, back down; in either case notice where she 

 becomes dusted with pollen and how her furry covering is fitted 

 for brushing and holding pollen. Then notice the shape and 

 positions of the floral parts and see that the part of her which 

 becomes dusted with pollen comes in contact with the stigma 

 of the next flower she visits. Note where she probes for nectar 

 and how many times in one flower. See her, when she is 

 thoroughly dusted with pollen, stop and clean up by combing out 

 the pollen with her middle legs and packing it in her pollen baskets 

 which are on her hind legs. 



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A New Spring Song 



William Prindle Alexander 



Sing a song of silvery Spring 



Just at winter's going, 

 Golden forces entering 



And a little snowing, 

 Ere a sprout has ventured out 



On the Southern stretches, 

 And the rill, upon the hill 



Its changing picture etches. 



Sing a song of willow row- 

 Decked with catkin furry, 



While the drift is still below 



Where swelling streamlets hurry ; 



When the skies, hint Paradise 

 Of coming rapture vernal, 



And in his heart man feels a part 

 Of all that is eternal ! 



