THE LIFE STORY OF AN APPLE BLOSSOM 



'f\7'ELL! Well! WeU! I'm the first one up on 

 the old pippin tree. Wake up, you fellows; 

 going to sleep all summer?" called out the eldest 

 blossom on the widespreading apple tree. "Come, 

 get a move on you, as busy Billy Bee will soon be 

 along for his morning nip, and if you fellows don't 

 loosen up soon you will never amount to anything. 

 Remember if you don't give, you will never receive, 

 so give Billy Bee a good swig of your honey and he 

 will bring you a package of bright yellow powder 

 pollen, that will put life into you, and make you a 

 regular fellow some day. 



"You feUows may not know it, but when Billy 

 Bee gets honey from some other blossom he also 

 gets pollen on his feet from the stamens of that 

 blossom, then when he comes over here to see you 

 and get your honey — the thing that really attracts 

 him — why he scatters the pollen aU over you that 

 he brought with him from the other blossom and 

 thereby he fertilizes you so that you will continue to 

 grow and produce a mature apple. Otherwise, with- 



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