Humming Birds And Flowers

It has long been known that insects assist plants by carrying the fertilizing pollen from flower to flower, but the fact has only recently been prominently brought : forward that humming birds ar iust as effective distributors of polieu as insects are. It has been shown that these little birds, which are as fond as bees of the honey of flowers, Qurrv the Dollen grains in great qnantity, not only on their feathers, but on their long bilis also. Indeed, so well suited is the humming bird to do thie work of distribution, without any intention of its own, that the question has been raised whether it may not be the most beneflcent of all the unoonscions friends that the flowers