Identifier: flowerbeeplant00love (find matches)
Title: The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Lovell, John Harvey, 1860-1939
Subjects: Fertilization of plants
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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s ofcolor in our hawthorn and crab-trees, our holly and moun-tain-ash, our broom, foxgloves, primroses, and purple vetches,which clothe with gay colors the whole length and breadth ofour land. They are characteristic of the country and climate,they have not to be sought, for they gladden the eye at everystep. Brilliantly colored flowers usually contrast with the greenfoliage of trees, or of herbaceous plants, or with the grass.But the white and blue hepaticas, which bloom with the open-ing of the new season, have for a background the sere andbrown leaves, fallen from the trees during the precedingautumn; and contrasting with the dark soil in dense woodsgleams the snow-white Indian-pipe. (Fig. 100.) Flowerswhich rest upon the surface of the water are often white oryellow, as the yellow and white water-lilies. Nocturnalflowers are also generally white or yellow, since purple or bluewould be invisible in the darkness of night. In Europe and North America, and in all lands where there 206
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Fig. 100. Indian-Pipe. Monotropa uniflora The snow-white parasitic plants contrast strongly with the dark soil of the woods in which they grow THE FLOWER AND THE BEE is an insect fauna rich botli in species and individuals, flowersdisplay an infinite number of brilliant hues and delicate shadeswhich surpass the power of the artist and naturahst to de-scribe. There is a wonderful variety of bicolored, tricolored,and variegated blossoms, often mottled and veined in end-less ways. Not only are the prismatic colors—red, orange,yellow, green, blue, and violet—displayed by many specieswith a profusion of intermediate shades, but rarer colors likeblack, brown, scarlet, crimson, and lurid purple are not unrepre-sented. Nature has tried her skill as a colorist in the metalliclustres and translucent hues of minerals; in the vivid, hvingtints of corals and sea-anemones; in the lights and shades re-flected by the scales of the butterflies wings; and in the bril-liant iridescent plumage of bir

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