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Show A Floral Clock. Many flowers show a susceptibility to changing conditions of light and weather which make them most Interesting. Inter-esting. This phenomenon has been utilized by an Ohio landscape gardener garden-er to form a unique decoration to tho grounds of tho Rockefeller country place at Tarrytown. This Is a flower bed which can be used as a clock. Tho bed Is circular and divided Into twclvo parts. Each contains a figure composed com-posed of a flower which orons or closes at tho corresponding hour. Thus tho two space is occupied by tho II made of hawk weed, which closes at 2 p. m. precisely. The hands are stationary, sta-tionary, of course,, and are composed of tho common yellow dandelion, which opens at half past 5 and closes at half past 8 p. m., and point to arrangements of flowers representing these figures. Among tho flowers used are tho snow thistle, which opens at 5 a. m. and closes at 4 p. m. Tho blue chicory, tho goat's beard, tho morning glory, poppy, water Illy, tho pimpernel, tho marigold, tho Star of Bethlehem, tho passion flower, the beauty of night, tho whlto lychnis and the blue convolvulus,, convol-vulus,, all of which have different tlmo for opening and closing. |