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Flashlights on Nature 



a p:issin<; call on the coninuinity. They have 

 unfolded their petals since, and are now standing 

 up awaiting their turn to be visited by their winged 

 ally, relieved of their honey, and duly fertilised. 



It sometimes takes 

 four or live days for 

 a single head to pass 

 Ihrougli all its stages. 



In No. 9 we have a 

 truly pathetic picture 

 of a solitary old maid, 

 perked up desolate and 

 alone in the midst of 

 her happier sisters. 

 She was an unopened 

 bud when some pass- 

 ing honey - gatherer 

 visited and set the 

 seeds of her more for- 

 tunate relations. The 

 flower on her left, to 

 be sure, has only just 

 turned ; it was the last 

 to receive attention 

 from its winged allies. 

 If you search a field 

 of Dutch clover, you 

 will find every here 

 and there such a solitary old maid. But you must 

 tiear in mind that none of this is true of the 

 common purple clover, nor yet of the brilliant 

 crimson kind (known to our farmers as " carna- 



NO. 9.— DUTCH CI.OVEK, A SOMl .\K\ 

 ni.I) MAID. 



