FINDING NATURE’S TREASURES 
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“Now, I know how the bees help the flowers,” cried 
Marylee. “They get pollen all over their fuzzy legs 
when they are after nectar in a flower. Then they carry 
that pollen to the next flower. Some of the pollen rubs 
off for the baby seeds there. I have seen bees with so 
much yellow dust on them that they looked like powder 
puffis. But I didn’t know that was the way they paid 
for their honey.” 
“That is right,” continued Uncle Jack. “But the pol¬ 
len from a buttercup would not be of any use to the 
seeds of the violet. A bee finds only a tiny bit of nectar 
in each flower; so it must visit many flowers before it 
