In most flowers there is a little honey. Did you ever suck the sweet drop out of a clover, or a honeysuckle? This honey gathers in the flower about the time that the pollen is ripe in the boxes. Just at the time that the flower needs the visit of the insects, the honey is set ready for them. Into the flower goes the insect for honey. As it moves about, eating, its legs, its body, even its wings, get dusty with pollen. When it has eaten the honey of one flower, off it goes to another. And it carries with it the pollen grains. As it creeps into the next flower, the pollen rubs off the insect upon the pistil. The pistil is usually right in the insect’s way to the honey. The top of the pistil is sticky, and it holds the pollen grains fast. So here and there goes the insect, taking the pollen from one flower to another. But stop a minute. The pollen from a rose will not make the seed germs of a lily grow. The tulip can do nothing with pollen from a honeysuckle. The pollen of a buttercup is not wanted by any flower but a buttercup. So of all. The pollen to do the germ any good must come from a flower of its own kind. What is to be done in this case? How will the insect get the pollen to the right flower? Will it not waste the clover pollen on a daisy? Now here comes in a very strange habit of the insect. Insects fly “from flower to flower,” but they go from flowers of one kind to other flowers of the _same kind_. Watch a bee. It goes from clover to clover, not from clover to daisy. Notice a butterfly. It flits here and there. But you will see it settle on a pink, and then on another pink, and on another, and so on. If it begins with golden rod, it keeps on with golden rod. God has fixed this habit in insects. They feed for a long time on the same kind of flowers. They do this, even if they have to fly far to seek them. If I have in my garden only one petunia, the butterfly which feeds in that will fly off over the fence to some other garden to find another petunia. He will not stop to get honey from my sweet peas. Some plants have drops of honey all along up the stem to coax ants or other creeping insects up into the flower. But other plants have a sticky juice along the stem, to keep crawling insects away. In certain plants the bases of the leaf-stems form little cups, for holding water. In this water, creeping insects fall and drown. Why is this? It is because insects that would not properly carry the pollen to another flower, would waste it. So the plant has traps, or sticky bars, to keep out the kind of insects that would waste the pollen, or would eat up the honey without carrying off the pollen. I have not had time to tell you of the many shapes of flowers. You must notice that for yourselves. Some are like cups, some like saucers, or plates, or bottles, or bags, or vases. Some have long horns, some have slim tubes or throats. Some are all curled close about the stamens and pistils.