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THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD 
How do plants 
club together? 
flowers. The color is made by a substance 
called anthocyan (pronounced an-tho-si-an), 
but men who study flowers do not know a great 
deal about this substance. 
A fact which we must never forget for a 
moment when we are thinking about flowers is 
that the flower is only interested in attracting 
insects to itself so that its seeds may be polli¬ 
nated. Large flowers like the water lily are 
easily seen, and they can get along by them¬ 
selves. Small flowers, however, are often hard 
to see; therefore, we often see them growing in 
groups. Lilacs are groups of flowers, and you 
know how easily seen they are. The bridal- 
wreath which blooms on bushes in our gardens 
in early spring is another example. So is the 
hyacinth. You can see the separate small flowers 
very readily. This group arrangement has two 
advantages—the flower can be seen better, and 
the insect can pollinate a large number of seeds 
at one time. 
Some flowers are so small that we think of 
the whole group as just one flower. Clover is 
