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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 6

The fact that plants manage to flnd food and support by some special sense has led to the inquiry whether plants can seo. At all events plants acb as if they were endowed with vision. For example, Mrs.. King has described a very curious instance of the habit of looking out for support on the part of a creeping plant belonging to India. She sayb : —" My husband has broached a theory that I cannot romember to have met with before, namely, that creeping plants can see, or at any rate have eome faculty equalling sight. He was sitting in the verandah with one foot up against a large pillar, near to which grows a kind of convolvulus. Its tendrils were leaning over, into the verandah, and to Robert's surprise he presently noticed that they were visibly, turning toward his leg. He remained in the same position, and in less than an hour the tendrils had laid themselves over his log. This was in the early morning, and when at breakfast he told mo of this discovory, we determined to make further experiments. When wo went out into the verandah the tendrils had turned their heads back to the railing in disgust. Wβ got a pole and leaned it up against the pillar, quite 12 inches from tho nearost sprays of convolvulus. In ten minutes they had begun to curvo thotneelves in that direction, and acted oxactly as you might fancy a vory elow snake would do if ho wished to reach anything. The upper tendrils bent down and the side onos curved themselves until they touched the pole, and in a few hours they wore twisted quite round it. It was on tho eide away from tho light, and oX-copting tho faculty of sight we could think of no other ineane by which the tondriU could be aware that tho pole had been placed thorcv Thoy had to turn away from tho light to roach it, and they sot thomsclvos in motion visibly within a few minutoa of the pole's being there."

Tonios.—Many so-called tonics utterly fail to impart renewed vitality to tho weak. The Genuine American Hop Bitters, made by Dr. Soule, nevur fails to do good. 0