The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...
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The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...
Curiosities and wonders; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Questions and answers; Science -- Miscellanea; Technology -- Miscellanea
We come now to the kinds of plants on which the “father” and “mother”
natures are on different plants of the same kind. At times they will
grow side by side, at other times they will be in the same field, but
very often they grow at quite a distance from each other. In some
instances the nearest father tree will be even miles away from the
mother tree of the same kind. But in any event the pollen from the
father nature must reach the mother nature of the plant or tree before
a perfect seed can be produced. In cases of this kind the father nature
will be on one tree or plant and the ovary or mother nature on another.
The wind helps out nature in some of these cases by blowing the pollen
of the father plant to the ovary of the mother plant. In many other
instances the bees and insects help.
Why Do Flowers Have Smells?
Where the bees do this it is because the bee has been visiting the
flowers in his search for honey. They do not fly from flower to flower
for the purpose of uniting the mother and father natures of plants, but
they help the flowers incidentally while getting the honey for which
they are searching. In gathering his honey the busy bee will go all
over the father flower and get his legs all covered with pollen powder.
Sooner or later he comes to a mother flower of the same kind of plant
or tree from which he has father pollen on his legs, and, still bent on
gathering honey, he incidentally rubs the pollen powder on to the ovary
of the mother flower and the fertilization takes place. The wonderful
thing about this is that the father pollen of one kind of a plant will
not fertilize the mother nature of another kind of plant. To illustrate
this, if a bee carrying pollen on his legs from a walnut blossom visits
the mother blossom of a hickory tree the pollen of the walnut would not
affect the hickory blossom, but would still have the proper effect on
the first walnut mother blossom he visited.
This is how life in general is reproduced among the plants and trees.
Life in the vegetable kingdom has no sense of feeling or any of the
other senses, but this kind of life is still true to its own nature
and is a wise thing in the plan of creation, because, since all seed
will produce only plants like those from which the seed came, man can
control the growth of the vegetables and fruits he needs as food. He
knows when he plants corn that he will get corn in return, because
perfect seed never makes a mistake. It would mix things up terribly for
man if this were not so, because man might then plant one thing and
find another thing growing. It would be a sad thing to plant wheat and
find thistles growing.
In order that seeds may grow they must be planted under conditions that
suit the kind of vegetable life in the seed. Man has to study and learn
what these conditions are.
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