HOW MAY I DO IT TOO;—BREEDING 
teur should so restrict himself, but suggests 
various instruments: A pair of jeweler’s for- 
ceps, or pincers, a jeweler’s eyeglass, a small 
but powerful microscope, a sharp knife, a saucer 
for holding the pollen, a soft brush for sifting 
or dusting the pollen from the saucer to the 
stigma of the plant to be fertilized. 
Whenever it is necessary, he makes use of 
any or all of these, or of other devices of his 
own making, but chiefly he pollenates by 
securing the pollen upon a watch-crystal and 
placing it upon the stigma with his finger-tips. 
The main object is to see that the pollen from 
the one flower gets onto the stigma of the 
other flower. The fertilizing, or fructifying, 
Nature will do herself if man has done his 
work well. 
Sometimes there are flowers which Nature 
has in her own good ways made extremely 
difficult to pollenate, flowers for which strange 
devices and curious contrivances and traps are 
prepared by Nature in order to get certain in- 
sects,—and only those,—to enter the flower 
at just the right time and there to hold them 
captive until they deposit the pollen they have 
gathered from another flower. Of such plants 
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