Introduction. 
EES and flowers belong together. We 
cannot understand the one without the 
other. For, you see, bees get their food 
from the flowers, and the flowers need the 
bees to enable them to form their seeds. 
The flowers that we like best have bright- 
colored petals. The petals of a rose are. 
pink or white or yellow. The petals of a 
violet are purple, and those of a forget-me- ' 
not are blue. 
Sometimes the petals are separate, as in 
a rose or a buttercup, and you can pull them 
off one by one. 
Sometimes they are all grown into one 
piece, like the funnel-shaped flower of the 
morning-glory. 
The bees can see the bright colors of the 
flowers a long way off. They can also 
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