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Title: My Studio Neighbors
Author: William Hamilton Gibson
Release Date: July 28, 2007 [EBook #22165]
Language: English
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MY STUDIO
NEIGHBORS
BY
WILLIAM
HAMILTON GIBSON
ILLUSTRATED BY THE
AUTHOR
NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1898
Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Transcriber note: Page
132 has wide margins to
accommodate the
illustration.
CONTENTS
Page
A Familiar Guest
3
The Cuckoos and
the Outwitted Cow-
bird
23
Door-step
Neighbors
57
A Queer Little
Family on the
Bittersweet
87
The Welcomes of the
Flowers
105
A Honey-dew Picnic
151
A Few Native

Orchids and Their
Insect Sponsors
171
The Milkweed
227
Index
239
Page
William
Hamilton
Gibson
Frontispiece
Initial. The
Studio Door
3
The Rose-
bush
Episode
9
A Corner of
My Table
12
An Animated
Brush
14
A Specimen
in Three
Stages
16
The Studio

Table
18
Initial
23
The
European
Cuckoo
24
The Yellow-
billed
Cuckoo
26
Browsing
Kine
29
A Greedy
Foster-child
34
The Yellow
Warbler
44
A Blighted
Home
46
The Normal
Nest of the
Yellow
Warbler
47
The Yellow

Warbler at 49
Home
A Suspicious
Nest of the
Yellow
Warbler
50
The Nest
Separated
52
Initial
57
The Door-
step Arena,
with its
Pitfalls
60
Fishing for
Tigers
65
Tiger-beetle
68
The Spider
Victim
70
Filling the
Spider's
Grave
71
Black

Digger-wasp
73
Black
Digger-wasp
and His
Victim,
Showing the
Egg of the
Wasp
Attached
75
Protecting
the Burrow
while
Searching
for Prey
79
The "Cow-
spit"
Mystery
Disclosed
81
The Tiger's
Head, from
the Victim's
Stand-point
84
Initial.
Branch of
the

Bittersweet
87
A
Bittersweet
Covey
90
Flushing the
Game
92
Specimen
94
Twig
Building
Froth-tent
100
Butterflies
and Flowers
105
A Row of
Stamens
106
The Parts of
a Flower
109
Historical
Series,
Showing the
Progress of
Discovery of
Flower

Fertilization
110
The Garden
Sage
120
Cross-
fertilization
of the Sage
121
Elastic
Stamens.
Anthers
Inserted in
their
Pockets
124
Elastic
Stamens of
Mountain-
laurel
125
Andromeda
Ligustrina
127
Fertilisation
of
Andromeda
128
The Laurel
130

Cross-
fertilization
of the Blue-
flag
131
Blue-flag
132
Pogonia and
Devil's-bit
133
Devil's-bit
134
Horse-balm.
Collinsonia
135
Cross-
fertilization
of the
Horse-balm
—Flowers in
Various
Stages, and
136
in the Order
of their
Visitation by
the Bee
The Cone-
flower
137

Cone-
flower,
Showing
Numerous
Florets,
Some in
Pollen,
Others in
Stigmatic
Stage
139
Cross-
fertilization
140
of Cone-
flower
The
Fertilization
of the
English
Arum, 1st
Stage
141
The
Fertilization
of the
English
Arum. 2d,
3d, 4th, and
5th Stages

142
Pogonia
145
Cross-
fertilization
146
A Pine
Branch
151
Initial
151
The Picnic
159
Tail-piece
167
Habenaria
Orbiculata
171
Arethusa
Bulbosa
177
The
Botanical
Distribution
of an
Ordinary
Flower and
of the
Orchid
182

The
"Column" in
Various
Orchids
183
The Result
of the Bee's
Visit
184
Cross-
fertilization
of Arethusa
188
Habenaria
Orbiculata.
A Single
Flower
Enlarged
190
Orchis
Spectabilis
191
Cross-
fertilization
of H.
Orbiculata
(Sphinx-
moth)
193
The Flower

and Column
of Orchis
Spectabilis,
Enlarged
195
Orchis
Spectabilis
195
Position of
Pollen of
Orchis
Spectabilis
Withdrawn
on Pencil
197
The Cross-