PLANTS HAVE HEARTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 9

PLANTS HAVE HEARTS

INDIAN SCIENTIST’S EXPERIMENTS. INTERESTING REVELATIONS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT. Received .1.5 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. G. A group of great scientists watched Sir Jagadis Bose, of India, at the British Association, prove that plants have hearts, nerves and muscles, also that the sap is driven similarly to the blood of human beings. He dropped two dying marigolds, one into ether which is a heart stimulant, and the other into a deadly poison. The first, revived, but the second drooped and died. Thereafter, by means of amazingly delicate instruments, revealed to the world, for the first time, the scientists watched a snapdragon was placed on a poison and light representing the plant’s pulse, was thrown on a darkened wall. The snapdragon was placed ona poison and the spot, moved towards death, but when practically dead the plant was dipped into ether, minutes passed with the plant at deathgrips, and then the spot moved lifewards and it revived. Sir Jagadis Bose declared that mimosa was ten times more sensitive than human beings.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.