Professor Kerner, the distinguished had a garden bed close io jo hence at Vienna; and io it di jammer, he had " patch of scar-geraniums planted. Near at hand, on the other side of the path, there grew the violet willow-herb, The flow ers of both open simaltancously. Bees and butterflies "warmed and flattered hither and thither over them; but yoy bees flew past the scarlet flowers with indifference, and turned only to the violet flowers of the willow-herb, In the Vienna Botanic Gardens the blue flowers of the hyseop are planted among several kinds of-scarlet flowers. honey-bees fly about there in large nambers, but they only visit the hyssop, the scarlet flowers being avoided by them. Whether the scarlet is wwoided or disliked cannot be ascertained; because it is ancertain whether he absence of bee visite to scarlet flowers is caused really by an actual dislike of the scarlet colour, or whether it is not rather colour-blindness which is knowe to be the reason why many haman beings do not see red. If we say that the boney-bees do not sce the scarlet colour, it would be clear why they would pay no visits to the lowers of the scant jam. They would not notice these colours because the nerve bundles which correspond to the scarlet colour are awanting in their eyes, The but-tortly, like the humming-bird, seems to recognise scarlet, and is attracted by it for the honey in the flower,
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