FLOWERS AS CLOCKS
Pansies and many other plants go by the sun. They get up and go to bed at exactly the same time as he does. Daisies enjoy the sun so much that when a shower of rain comes they close up quite tightly. You can see them opening cut when the sun shines again. As for the Evening Primrose, she stays up all night and sleeps in the day. She spreads out her yellow dan-cing-dress when darkness comes, and while you are in bed she is breathing her lovely scent over the garden. The minute it gets light she crumples up again, and you can’t wake her until night-time. If you live near a river or a pond where there are water-lilies, you may catch them folding up their petals round about nursery tea-time—at 5 o’clock.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 26
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138FLOWERS AS CLOCKS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 26
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