PROFESSOR BONN'S LETTER 123 



as marvelously made as a king's palace. Five 

 of the flower's little parts are turned downward. 

 In that position they could hold no nectar for 

 Master Bee's entertainment. Still the flower has 

 five tiny hood-like pieces wherein the nectar is 

 secreted. The insects find them easily; try if you 

 can do so as well. Besides, the golden dust is not 

 scattered loosely. It is compactly packed in two 

 little masses that are held together by the finest 

 thread imaginable. These are golden packages 

 ready for the express. When Master Bee comes 

 along for his feast of nectar, his feet somehow 

 get entangled in this tiny thread. Fie is a poor 

 one at picking out knots, and so he carries off the 

 packages and leaves them at the next Milkweed 

 house he visits. Most likely they are caught there 

 by that little sticky spot called the stigma. Then, 

 after a time of waiting and growing, two long 

 pods are formed like those you have so often seen 

 along the roadside. 



" Lose your chagrin that Herr Wilhelm Fritz 

 has called your pretty plant a weed. At least it 

 is a right royal one, and a true American. But 

 can Herr Wilhelm Fritz always tell a weed from 

 a flower? 



" Some say a weed is one that covers up and 

 monopolizes waste ground. This your woodland 

 Milkweed does not do. I would I might say the 

 same of Wild Rose. Another says a weed Is 

 troublesome and difficult to get rid of. I cannot 



