LUTHER BURBANK 



We should see that, if it starts in the morning 

 with clover, it visits no other blossom during the 

 day but clover blossoms. Or if it begins on an 

 orange tree, it passes the cherries, the peaches, the 

 apples and anything else which may be in bloom, 

 but will go miles to find orange trees; or if it starts 

 on onions, then the geraniums and the carnations 

 and the poppies have no attraction for it. 



Which, by the way, is the reason that the bees 

 produce, for themselves and for us, clover honey, 

 and orange honey, and onion honey, each with a 

 distinct flavor of its own. 



But there are other reasons why the flowers do 

 not get mixed up. 



One is that while some flowers advertise to the 

 bees, others advertise only to the humming birds 

 the bees can not get into the bird flowers and 

 the birds can not get into the bee flowers; some 

 flowers open in the early morning, and some 

 toward noon; some bloom in April, and some in 

 July. 



The pollen granules of some flowers are so 

 large that they can not push their tubes down into 

 the egg nests of flowers with small pistils; there 

 are structural differences between the various 

 families of plants which seem to make cross 

 pollenation almost impossible; and so on through 

 a wide range of reasons why certain plants are 



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