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in a green-house, or where the bees have no access, it should 

 be fecundated : for the anthers do not discharge their pol- 

 len spontaneously, like those of many plants, but by sudden 

 jerks, when their spurs are bent down by insects attempting 

 to get at the honey below. 



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