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My Studio Neighbors
·
W. Hamilton Gibson
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Such,
with
slight
modifications,
is
the
plan
evolved
by
the
whole
cypripedium
tribe.
Darwin
mentions
bees
as
the
implied
fertilizers,
and
doubtless
many
of
the
smaller
bees
do
effect
cross-fertilization
in
the
smaller
species.
But
the
more
ample
passage
in
acaule
would
suggest
the
medium-sized
Bombus
as
better
adapted--as
the
experiment
herewith
pictured
from
my
own
experience
many
times
would
seem
to
verify,
while
a
honey-bee
introduced
into
the
flower
failed
to
fulfil
the
demonstration,
emerging
at
the
little
doorway
above
without
a
sign
of
the
cordial
parting
token.
Occasionally
I
suppose
a
fool
bumblebee
is
entrapped
within
the
petal
bower
and
fails
to
find
the
proper
exit,
or
it
may
be--much
less
a
fool--having
run
the
gantlet
once
too
often,
decides
to
escape
the
ordeal;
hence
the
occasional
mutilated
blossom
already
described.
One
of
the
most
beautiful
of
our
orchids,
though
its
claims
to
admiration
in
this
instance
are
chiefly
confined
to
the
foliage,
is
the
common
"Rattlesnake-Plantain,"
its
prostrate
rosettes
of
exquisitely
white
reticulated
leaves
carpeting
many
a
nook
in
the
shadows
of
the
hemlocks,
its
dense
spikes
of
yellowish-white
blossoms
signalling
their
welcome
to
the
bees,
and
fully
compensating
in
interest
what
they
may
lack
in
other
attractive
attributes.
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