Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1916 — Clever Plants [ARTICLE]

Clever Plants

The cleverness of some plants la indisputable. A sundew, or fly-eater, deceived by a-piece of chalk, seized it in its tendrils, but upon discovering the fraud Immediately withdrew them, A fly, held just out of Its reach, did not tempt it to move, but as soon as it was brought a little nearer the plant prepared to take possession of IL Darwin shewed that a begonia had a habit of searching for a hole to Insert its tendrils into, and even of withdrawing the tendril to insert it in another hole, if the first proved unsuitable. Nor Is this power of selecting confined to any particular class. Climbers like the lianas will to coll round a branch not (strong enough to bear their weight