How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

Flowers and Their Friends

2 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Flowers and Their Friends (Summer day and how fine)

a summer day, and how fine the fields would look all covered with gay tropæolum blooms instead of plain green potato tops with their dull…

Flowers and Their Friends (Wish to have other pollen than)

flowers wish to have other pollen than their own.

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