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.

Tropæolum Stories

6 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Tropæolum Stories (We are tempted to call it)

We are tempted to call it a horn of plenty because it is shaped like a cornucopia and is overflowing with sweet nectar.

Tropæolum Stories (One flower is often left)

one flower is often left in another, and this is what the tropæolum wants. It wishes its pollen to reach another flower, and uses the bees…

Tropæolum Stories (It in another trop olum)

it in another tropæolum blossom, and intends to take it home to feed the young bees; but as she enters our pollenless flower for nectar…

Tropæolum Stories (Strike the little shields)

strike the little shields of the tropæolum they make them tingle with life. Then the shield leaves go to work and make food for the plant…

Tropæolum Stories: Goddess

The Goddess of Plenty owns this horn. You can see it in her pictures, as it always stands at her side, and there overflows with flowers and…

Tropæolum Stories: Hercules

The river god, Acheloüs, and Hercules, the god of strength, struggled together. Hercules threw the god Acheloüs and seized him by the…

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