Excerpt from The Mysteries of the Flowers Sniffing at the gay and sweetly scented lilies, I learned that flowers produced pollen, as well as honey, for I found that with it I had unwittingly painted my face an orange-yellow, and then I was told that the bees carried this pollen from where it grew to the place where it was required; that thus, and not otherwise, the seeds were made, and, without bees and pollen, there would be no flowers next years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.