A WONDER FLOWER
One of the most curious flowers iv the world is a kind of convolvulus which is common in Bermuda. The strange thing about this blossom is that; it changes colour as the hours of the day pass. Soon- after, sunrise the flower opens and it is then a lovely rose-pink. As time passes the bloom takes on a mauve shade until by noon it is a rich blue. In the afternoon the blue becomes fainter .and fainter until when darkness conies this astonishing blossom is quite white.' Just before midnight the flower fades, ■ and it is a mass of crumpled petals.by the morning. ■ . '•.-- .- ■ ; ■
RIDDLES TO GUESS. Why Is a watch like a river?— Because it never runs along without winding. • What three letters of the alphabet will name three English rivers?—D.X.Y. (Dee, Exe, and Wye.) ■ • "BRIAR ROSE" (1»). Lower ■ Hutt,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 5
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143A WONDER FLOWER Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 5
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