Flowers and Their Friends

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.

How Mother Nature Makes New Flowers

4 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

How Mother Nature Makes New Flowers

ONCE upon a time there lived a little plant in a marshy place. We will call it Primus, not because that was the very first form of the…

How Mother Nature Makes New Flowers: Secundus

Let us call them Secundus. Secundus had small yellow flowers, like the marsh plants it was descended from. But one day some of the seeds of…

How Mother Nature Makes New Flowers: Quartus

So we will call the white-flowered people Quartus.

How Mother Nature Makes New Flowers: Sextus

We shall have to call these Sextus.

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