WHEN FLOWERS SLEEP
All flowers do not sleep at the same time. The common water-lily retires about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the daisy and buttercup much later in the evening. Tulips and crocuses, being suscoptible to climatio changes, go to bed as soon as the heat of the day is over and the evening chill sets in. The goat's beard, something like a dandelion, and growing in tall gTass, shuts up its flowers at noon, anl does not open them again till the next morning. For this reason the flower is sometimes called "John-go-to-bed-at-noon."
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 8
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95WHEN FLOWERS SLEEP New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 8
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