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...their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
Everywhere in Europe, seed came alive, but Europe had reason to wonder whether the seed of its own old civilization was still viable...
...past, to watch for blossoms in the orange and lemon trees, but to see whether the river level was rising; for Italy was parched by its worst drought in two centuries. Heavy gusts of spring rain finally swelled the river, and softened the brittle earth to the seed...
...China, it would be ching huan pu chieh, the time between the green and the yellow. In Poland, it would be na przednowku, the time-before the new. Soon, peasants in many hungry lands would have finished their spring planting; dreaded months of waiting were ahead. For until the seed bore fruit and the crop was in, how would the peasants and their city brethren live...
That is about the only stage talent Danny does not possess. Even his first performance, as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149, showed he had a clown's heart. He was 5½ years...