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Show How Flowers Attract Beta. It has long been n mooted question whether Infects are attracted to flowers flow-ers by thu brljsht hues ot the petals or by the o 'or of tho flowers, and recent re-cent experiments enrried out on qutto on extensive scale eoem to Indicate thnt the perfume Is the essential directive di-rective aRnt. It Is concluded thnt insects nro guided from a distance to masses ot tiowers by their perfume alone, but that whero llowers nro grown singly, InscctR are attracted generally by color, and where the dls-tnnco dls-tnnco Is 8i"nll tho odor doubtless as-slsts as-slsts In attracting and directing the movements of the flying Insects. |