Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 490
ut, in either case, it is to these disksthat wasps and flies owe their power of climbingwindow-panes and walking on the ceiling with backsdownward. The Deacon says he knows that waspsare very neat, and that, like many other respect-able insects, they keep their bodies and theirnests as clean as… … SIDE AND TOP OF SINGLE BLOSSOM. their season of bloom,the air is heavily ladenwith their delightful per-fume. This lily is noted for the freedom with which it blooms, oftenproducing twenty or thirty flowers on a single stalk, which seemsto us, accustomed to seeing only three or four, a very…
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