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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- 



