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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
Honeysuckle. Unlike them, it does not trust to so rough and 
ready an agent of fertilization as the wind, so that it waits until 
its boughs are well clothed with leaves before putting forth its 
yellowish-white blossoms. These are in clusters (^cymes') of six 
or seven, the stalks of all arising from one very long and stouter 
stalk, which is attached for half its length to a thin and narrow 
bract. Individually regarded, the flowers will be found to con- 
sist of five sepals, five petals, an oval ovar>’ with a style ending 
in a five-toothed stigma, and surrounded by a large number of 
stamens. The stamens discharge their pollen before the stigma 
of that flower is fitted to receive it, so that cross-fertilization is 
ensured by the visits of the innumerable bees that visit the 
flowers for the abundant nectar they contain, and which the 
bees convert into a first-rate honey. 
