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Man's ideas of the use of flowers--Sprengel's great discovery--Insects, not man, consulted--Pollen carried to set seed--Flowers and insects of the Whinstone Age--Coal Age flowers--Monkey-puzzle times--Chalk flowers--Wind-blown pollen--Extravagant expenditure of pollen in them--Flower of the pine--Exploding flowers--Brilliant alpines--Intense life in flowers--Colour contrasts--Lost bees--Evening flowers--Humming birds and sunbirds--Kangaroo--Floral clocks--Ages of flowers--How to get flowers all the year round--Ingenious contrivances--Yucca and fig--Horrible-smelling flowers--Artistic tastes of birds, insects, and man 68