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Show A native plant in Borneo, we arc told, is known as the clock plant. Our informant goes on to say that "the name is derived from the action of the sun's rays on the leaves, wliich are three in number a large one ex- tending forward, with two small ones I at the base pointing sideways. Thc3c coming in contact with the rays of the sun oscillate like the pendulum of i I clock, the larger leaf moving upward I and -downward, going its full length every forty-five minutes. The smal- Ier leaves move toward the larger, completing the distance forward and backward every forty-five minutes, thus resembling the hour and minute hands of a clock." Now, if some latent Burbank down I there in Borneo will come along and I graft a blue-bell on the plant, they will have something worth while. tH You would never have to wind it When it ran down, instead of yelling for someone to wind it up, you would simply .call to the hiredi man, fjjHfcy ' there, bring out a shovel full of man- I rure, tlielok, is cunning dowli. ' 1 M |