Show FLOWERS THAT GIVE LIGHT fact not gen generally brally known Is that many cornmon common plants have a distinct luminosity most people have seen the plant colloquially called the burning bush and have struck a match and applied it to the feathery lowers flowers and leaves in order to see the delicate flame run nin over the surface of the plant without affecting or hurting it but it is not so well known that there are a number of blowers which throw off luminosity all their own and among such plants tire are the common marigold certain sorts of lilies and the oriental poppy as well as that chat familiar and popular favorite the nasturtium it is related that on a warm summer evening in the year 1762 the clever daughter of the famous swedish botanist linneus noticed that some gardani nasturtiums in her fathers garden were emitting tiny but distinct flashes of light first one flower dower then another would throw out an evanescent beam though thong gh at first her assertion was received with doubt other investigators soon proved it to be true ara aej it Is now known that not only nasturtiums but many other flowers exhibit e this luminosity camellias hae been seen to 16 glow glov with a moonlike radiance |