Show PROOF OF SIGHT IN PLANTS nature student comes forward with convincing argument darwin believed that plants could see and I 1 believe so too said a na ture student I 1 was reading on my veranda the other da day y one toot foot was nas near a large bonvol convolvulus vulus the tendrils were point ing outwards but in a few minutes I 1 heard them rustle faintly they were turning towards my shoe they began to advance towards it moving as a very sluggish serpent might have done a and 11 d by the time I 1 bad fiad finished the joke column they were within a few inches of me I 1 went indoors then for dinnee on my return ane disgusted had resumed their outlaid march towards the rail I 1 got a pole and set it up a foot from the nearest bendri tendrils Is in ten min utes they were creeping sturdily towards the pole to to day they are twined about it how could the convolvulus tendrils approach my toot foot and the pole both placed in thoi opposite direction from the light unless they saw sawa yen they must have sight these plants or they couldn coulden t trot about in the silent clever way they do bi A |