Identifier: gardenerschronic333lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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the stigma below should haveto come from another flower, and fromanother root; that it should have to passthe block of its own stigma; to travel to,and to pass through the covering of theclose-trapped box formed by ihe short-styledanthers when the pollen and stigma aremature, before it could ever reach thestigmaof tte short-styled pistil at all. Naturewould obviously be inconsistent with her-self, if, after framing such an elaborate setof arrangements favouring self-fertilisation,cross-fertilisation were inthiscase,according 226 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (Apbil 11, 1903. to Darwins theory, absolutely necessary forher to fulfil her ordinary law of full andperfect fertility. Nature is scarcely open tothe charge of being guilty in her naturalcourse of such fantastic contrariness. the other form in their searching for honey.But visits of such insects to the flowers aremost exceptional. This can be proved byany observer who will take the trouble toobserve the wild flowers. I very carefully
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Fig. 93.—cephalotaxus oliveei: hardy Chinese evergreen, (see r. 227.) It is quite evident from the structure ofthe flower, that any conveyance by the windof the pollen of the long-styled to the stigmaof the short-styled would be most im-probable. The only means consequently bywhich such transference could be effectedwould be by insects, with a long tongue orproboscis, when passing from one form to observed the flowers during two successiveyears, and during two whole seasons, and Ionly saw four long-tongued insects, each on asingle occasion only, visiting the flowers.One of these was a species of bee, Antho-phera pilipes; two were butterflies, thecommon Cabbage and Brimstone butterflies ;and one a long-tongued fly, the Bombylius discolor. These were all the long-tonguedinsects which I saw visiting the flowers.Though I examined tens of thousands, Imight say millions of Primroses, I haveonly once, in a subsequent year, seen thePrimrose visited by a humble bee, Bombuslapidarius. The rar

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