People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — The Sunflower. [ARTICLE]

The Sunflower.

Investigation shoVs that the common sunflower exhales twelve ounces of water in twelve hours, and an oak tree, with an estimated number of 700,000 leaves, wduld In the same way give off something like 700 tons of water during the five months it carries its foliage. England uses 600,000 pounds of tea daily.