Show FLORAL CLOCKS THEY WILL BE MADlifM TH EAT AND THE WEST One Experiment Will Be Made in New York and the Other in California Cali-fornia An Idea Novel in This Country Berkeley Cal May 4lock gardens whose flowers will tell the time of day is being planned by Instructor H A Ousterhout of the botanical department depart-ment of the university He proposes to I cultivate such a garden on the uni versity grounds arranging the plants I In dial form The hours and half hours are to be Indicated daily by the successive suc-cessive opening and closing of buds i The work of producing a clock garden will be a lone task a it has never been attempted in California before I and a great deal of experimenting will be necessary to find out just what flowers flow-ers should be placed around the circle I I to indicate time The garden will be I tme I the only one of the kind In the United I i States I By setting the right varieties of I flowers we can mark all the our and Lsome of the half hours throughout the I day said Mr Ousterhout in describing describ-ing the projected botanical curiosity The flowers would be arranged like a clock and In the early morning they I I bloom the different would begin to blom diferent varieties at different periods according t I to the light and heat Gradually the r opening of blossoms would extend I around the circle until at night the r circle would be all In bloom The first arden of the kind ever made was at Upsala Sweden by the botanist Linnaous There is also one i aso in Paris and efforts have been made ito i-to cultivate them in the eastern states but owing to the elements they have l I not been very successful r I think the California climate is suitable for such an experiment The question that remains ttj be solved is i as to what flowers thrive best here and at what time of day the different i varieties will bloom here I |