THE GREEN WORLD 243 



fields, that it is the policy of bugloss to make and 

 offer honey to the bees. 



Honey is by way of tip to the porter who carries 

 the pollen. 



The bugloss might, no doubt, have painted these 

 fields a burning blue without aid of bee ; and, other 

 things favouring, these fields might turn blue again 

 many summers to come without this pollen porterage. 

 But I cannot question that the bees, visiting perhaps 

 again and again every blossom on these million spikes 

 of blue, ever stirring and mixing the pollen, tend 

 to keep the whole crop up to high efficiency. 



