Introduction. 



BEES 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 



