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...anatomy. "Then I came to what I'm doing now . . . I want these heads to be as brilliant as neon lights, to be in the air between you and the black background, like the handwriting at Belshazzar's feast . But these heads are shoots only. What the flower is going to be I'm as much surprised...
Under-the-Counter Subsidy. In Toronto, Mrs. Greta Longenotti's former employer, a florist, charged that she stole $3,388 from him, used it to open a rival flower shop...
...advocated a more thorough study of American history, the introduction of music and botany. He saw no reason why children's chairs should not have backs, why their dull texts should not be "worthy of the best literary genius," or why their classrooms should not be brightened with "flower pots and pretty shrubs...
...does it tell and what does it tell? By elaborate experiments over many years, Dr. von Frisch deciphered some phases of bee language. A scout bee, he says, can tell its fellows what kind of flower contains the honey-trove, in what direction it lies, and how far away...
When the scout bee enters the hive, he says, it climbs to a section of comb and starts a stylized dance. Other bees gather around, caressing the scout with their touch-and-smell antennae. The scout bee's odor, picked up from the flower it has robbed, tells them what sort of flower they should look...