My Studio Neighbors

Sprengel, Christian Conrad: --Inspiration from the wild geranium, 108; on the mystery of color, 112; theory of fertilization; a poser to Linnaeus, 113; his wrong theory, 114; divining half the truth, 176; assumption disproved, 178. Spume-bearer (Aprophora), its domicile of suds; wonderful power of jumping, 82. Starling, dispossessing woodpecker from nest, 43. Studio Company: --"Tumultuous privacy"; contested territory; snickering squirrels, 4; selected food; unsymmetrical carpentry; drone of bees; carol of birds; flurry of swifts; accompaniments to my toil, 5; wild fox; pet chipmonk; pet toad; his lightning tongue; home in a bowl, 6; an old friend, 9. Summer yellow-bird (Mnio-tiltidae), 47. Sweet-pogonia (P. ophioglossoides), 145. Swift, Jonathan, on parasites, 44. Tennyson, quoted, 24. "The Secrets of Nature in Forms and Fertilization of Flowers Discovered," Sprengel's work, 113. Thevenot, concerning the thrift of insects, 152. Tiger-beetle (Cicindela), 68. Toads, 6. Toad-spit, 80. Tree-hopper, 93. Venus's-slipper (Cypripedium acaule), 205. Vireo, abandons its nest, 45. Wasps: --Wren, 10; microscopic, 45; tiny black, 69; digger, 72, 162; orange-spotted, 79; brown; mud, 161. "Waxwork" bittersweet (Celastrus scandens), 88. Welcome of the flowers: --The function of the stamen, 106; difference in cells, 107; condition of the flower, 108; physiological features; recognition of sex in flowers, 109; exchange of courtesies; each flower a law unto itself, 117; action of "jack-in-the-pulpit"; cypripedium and aristolochias; peculiarity of the sage, 119; queer stamens; nature's arrangement, 121; cross-fertilization insured, 122; showers of laurel pollen; curious construction of flower, 124; singular greeting to the bee, 126; remarkable interior arrangement of the Andromeda, 128; hidden anthers of the blue-flag, 129; intercommunication and reciprocity, 135.