NO TWO LIVING THINGS 

 EXACTLY ALIKE 



Infinite Ingenuity the Cost ar 

 Variation 



WHERE do the flowers get their colors? 

 From the bees, and the butterflies, 

 and the birds — and from us. 



Let us pick up a carnation or any other com- 

 mon garden pink (Dianthus), a class of plants 

 very commonly cultivated in greenhouses and 

 out-of-doors. 



If we were to strip off the petals soon after 

 they have opened, and slice the base of the blos- 

 som in half, we should find ourselves looking 

 into a tiny, long cylindrical nest of dianthus eggs 

 — soft, white, moist, mushy eggs with only a 

 soft, skinny covering for shells. 



Carefully packed in a pulpy formation, these 

 eggs, we should observe, are incased in a well 

 protected nest, longer than its breadth, oval, 

 except that its top extends upward in the form 

 of a single tiny stalk. 



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