Word: pollens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every well-instructed child eventually learns about the bees and the flowers.* Like busy cupids, bees fly from flower to flower, carrying pollen from the anthers" (male organs) and dusting it on the pistils (female organs). In a state of nature, this relatively simple service is all the outside help that flowers require for reproduction of their kind...
...overcivilized modern orchards the trick does not always work. Many high-bred apple trees, for instance, have flowers that refuse to be fertilized by pollen of their own variety. They demand pollen from other varieties, which the local bees seldom supply...
Some up-to-date orchardists attempt to solve the problem by pinch-hitting for the bees. They collect pollen of an acceptable type and dust it from airplanes upon the choosy flowers. Orchardman Leo C. Antles of Wenatchee, Wash, prefers the natural way. He has just acquired a patent on a persuasive device. He puts the proper pollen in a little container (U.S. Patent 2,435,951) and attaches it to the beehive. The bees, forced to struggle through the Antles gadget on their way to work, carry to the flowers exactly the kind of pollen that the pistils need...
...Patient. With crushed flowers, powdered rock, pollen, charcoal and corn meal, the Navajos invented a highly abstract way of picturing their even more abstract ideas of the forces that move nature. Their paintings, which their underprivileged, impoverished descendants (TIME, Nov. 3) still produce in quantity, have nothing to do with art as civilization knows it. They are not merely for art's sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings...
...knows the signs. When a foraging worker returns to the hive laden with pollen or nectar, she executes a stylized dance proclaiming her success. Fellow workers, by smelling the dancing bee, can tell at once what kind of flower she has been playing around with. Off they zoom hopefully, searching for like-smelling flowers...