Now, the pistil needs pollen off the anthers of some other flower in order to bring seed-babies to life. Oh, yes, Mary Frances, I’m coming to the part about the bees. The pistil needs pollen, as I said; sometimes a pistil needs the kind of pollen which is on the anthers of the same plant, sometimes a pistil needs pollen from the anthers of some other plant, but it must have pollen to give seed babies life. HOW CAN THE FLOWERS GET POLLEN Now, flowers cannot walk, nor can the pistils or stamens of flowers walk. How can they get the pollen powder to their pistils? How can the pollen powder get to their pistils? THE FLOWERS SPREAD A FEAST FOR INSECTS In some cases the breeze blows some pollen upon the pistils of a few flowers, but it is a very _uncertain_ way, to depend on a breeze; so the wonderful flowers _spread a feast_ of just the most delightful food for _bees_, and sometimes for butterflies, and sometimes for moths; and not only do they get the most enticing food ready for such insects, but they put out the most beautiful signs telling them the feast is ready. They make the sign just as attractive as they possibly can for the particular kind of insect they wish to come to them to eat. They use the loveliest colors and the most delightful odors, which please the bees, the butterflies, the moths, more than they please even you and me, by their wonderful beauty and fragrance. NECTAR The food they give the bee is—no, Mary Frances, it is not honey, it is _nectar_, out of which the bees make honey. HONEY BEE’S HONEY-CHURNS Yes, I know you want to learn how they make it. No, they do not churn it in a churn; they really churn it, though. That is a good guess. They churn it in their honey-sac stomachs. The honey bees love pollen, too. It is their flour—pollen flour—and they carry it to their hives in little basket-like places on their legs. THE INSECTS CARRY POLLEN Now, the bees in coming to get this feast of good things to eat—the nectar for honey, and the pollen for bee-flour, both of which are very necessary for bees—do just exactly what the flowers want them to do above everything—_to carry pollen_ from some anthers to the pistil. This they do without knowing what a great kindness they are bestowing upon the flowers.