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and pistil are together, you will often find that they 

 cannot easily be pollenised by their own pollen. 



Sometimes, for instance, the anthers and stigma 

 ripen or mature at different times, so that the anthers 

 may have ripened, and shed their pollen before the 

 stigma of the pistil is ready to receive it ; sometimes 

 the anthers and stigma are so placed that the pollen 

 of the flower cannot easily come in contact with it 

 own stigma; and sometimes, if it does so, it is of no 

 use there, but withers and dies away. All this will be 

 very interesting for you to search into more par- 

 ticularly hereafter. 



And equally interesting are the different ways in 

 which pollination is brought about. 



One of the most common ways, especially in 

 monaecious and diaecious plants, is by the wind : 

 the pollen being blown to and lodged upon the 

 stigmas. If you have many yew trees in your 

 neighbourhood, and can watch the clouds of pollen 

 dust blown from the stamen bearing flowers, you 

 will never again forget the agency of the wind in pro- 

 ducing pollination. Other common instances are the 

 hazel and Scotch fir. You may like to know that 

 plants in which pollination is brought about mainly 

 by the wind are called anemophilous* or wind lovers. 



But you must often have noticed bees and other 

 insects busy in the flowers ; that is another way in 

 which pollination is very commonly brought about. 



* From the Greek " anemos" wind ; and " phiho" I love. 



