Identifier: birdsnature821900chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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my best, And let kind nature do all the rest. Wildea Wood. 56 THE GLADNESS OF NATURE. Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around, When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground i* There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren,And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den.And the wilding-bee hums merrily by. The clouds are at play in the azure space, And their shadows at play on the bright green vale, And here they stretch to frolic chase,And there they roll on the easy gale. Theres a dance of leaves in that aspen bower; Theres a titter of winds in that beechen tree;Theres a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea. And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smilesOn the dewy earth that smiles in his ray; On the leaping waters and gay young isles—Ay, look, and hell smile thy gloom away! William Cullen Bryant.
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LADYS SLIPPER. (Cypripedimn hirsutum 59 FLOWERS AND THEIR INVITED GUESTS. It must be taken for granted in thispaper that the reader has such knowledgeof the parts of the fiower as could be ob-tained from the paper on A TypicalFlower, printed in the June number. When flowers first appeared it becamenecessary to secure the transfer of thepollen grains to the stigmas. This wasnecessary in order that the ovule mightbe developed into a seed containing ayoung plant or embryo. At first the cur-rents of air were selected as the agentsof this pollen transfer, and the flowerswere adapted to what is known as wind-pollination. As the wind is an inanimateagent any transfer by.it is largely a matterof chance. In order to increase thechances of successful pollination it wasnecessary for pollen to be developed inenormous quantities, so that it might falllike rain. In this way stigmas would bereached, but at the same time an enor-mous amount of pollen would be wasted.The evergreens are good illustrati

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