Excerpt from Blossom Hosts and Insect Guests: How the Heath Family, the Bluets, the Figworts, the Orchids and Similar Wild Flowers Welcome the Bee the Fly, the Wasp, the Moth and Other Faithful InsectsBlossom hosts and insect guests is an exposition Of the method by which owers are fertilized, a subject which Mr. Gibson was the first American to investigate, his patient study resulting in many valuable contributions to scientific knowl edge in this direction.NO one knew more of flowers, shrubs, trees and insects or of the special haunts and homes Of all Of them, and even readers to whom botany IS a sealed book may follow him into the fields and woods and marshes with a full certainty Of being charmed and enlightened in unexpected ways. He was his own teacher in what was best, and those who have the task Of training amateur naturalists Should see well to it that they catch, if they can, the secret Of his success.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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