Show Wonder of Plant Memory Plant memory Is a problem for tho inquisitive botanist says the Dundee Advertiser In 1901 a plant allied to tho squash and pumpkin was taken to New York from the desert ot Sonora In Mexico and since then it has been kept without watering In a strange climate 3000 miles from home During Dur-ing the six weeks of rain In the des t tho plant grows Its leaves and flowers and perfects Its seed Then it dries up and leaves only a water Oiled gourd which a thick hard shell seals against animals and evaporation Tho transplanted specimen still remembers re-members tho rainy season of six weeks It wakes sends out rootlets steins and leaves and then dries up again until tho following year |