Things to Find Out
Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Wild Flowers — and out of doors.
- What are the favourite colours of bees?
- What is Emerson's definition of a weed?
- What plant has furnished Americans with substitutes for tea? Coffee?
- What plants steal their living from others?
- What uses are served by the hairs on stems and leaves of plants?
- What wild flowers act as traps for catching insects?
- What plants will give his bearings to a lost traveller?
- What plants fold their leaves in sleep at nightfall?
- What flowers throw their pollen when a bee disturbs them?
- How does the milkweed prevent ants from pilfering its nectar?
- What is the meaning of Aquilegia? Columbine?
- What little flower is a weather prophet?
- What tribe of flowering plants is best fitted by nature to inherit the earth?
- What agencies help plants to scatter their seeds?
- What plants throw their seeds by explosive pods?
- How does Sprengel explain the different parts of the violet flower?
- What are the latest fall blossoms?
- What plant bears three distinct types of flowers in one season?
- What is the Yale flower?
- What flowers depend for the setting of seeds on sphinx moths?
- What factor determines the shape and arrangement of leaves?
- What seed head is an unequalled tool for raising the nap on cloth?
- What common flower was believed by primitive people to have miraculous power?