Floney-Dew. 105 
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BLOSSOM OF CUCURBITA. 
Mother-Aphis and Her Army of Children on Tube. 
Here, it was apparent, was a most wonderful manifestation 
of intelligent design. The newly-born, needing the mother’s 
earliest attention, were in closest proximity, while the almost 
mature were the farthest removed from her essential 
presence. , 
All this seemed to indicate the dearest relationship sub- 
sisting between mother and offspring, but judging from out- 
ward appearances, little, if any, love existed. It is true that 
maternal instinct, which is seldom so far gone as to shut its 
ears to the beseechings of suffering offspring for food, was 
far from being absent. Instances of its presence were 
momentarily noted. 
But a stimulus seemed, in some cases, quite necessary to 
its manifestation. There were times when the honey-glands 
acted without any provocation. It was only, however, when 
