FLOWER AS WEATHER GLASS.

Evening Star, Issue 17191, 5 November 1919, Page 7

FLOWER AS WEATHER GLASS.

One member <xf a holiday party was always in great demand when the dav’s plans wore being discussed, because Ike could tell us if it was going to be fine, writes “My Notebook” scribe in the ‘Daily News.’ Not once in a fortnight was this man wrong, and yet his prophecies were sometimes in direct contradiction to the official forecasts and the readings of the barometer. Before we parted ho let us into the secret, A bit of a botanist, he had discovered that no flower deserves the name of the “poor man’s weather glass ” so well as the little yellow hawk-weed. This plant, with flowers like small dandelions, is common on waste patches and by roadsides everywhere throughout the summer. Never once during several years, ha told ns, had rain come when tho golden, blooms of the hawkweed have been fully expanded. Often enough had the sky been heavy with clouds, and rain seemed certain, yet he was able to assure everybody that the weather would be fins, just because he had ee» n the hawkweed flowers. On the other hand, the closing of these blooms, even if the prospect looks fair, is a certain sign of a coming .change.