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Show . FLOWERS LOVE AND HATE. Claim That They Are Endowed With Passions Like Human Beings, According to a French scientist, flowers are endowed with passions like human beings, and there are few arnoh''them"d!vIiich cannot. love and, hate ferventlyi '"They have- their sympathies and. antipathies," fie explains, "and if' we study them closely we can easily'- find -them out. Roses are passionately I. fond, of some? flowers, and flourish when near thm. On the other hand, they speedily wither when placed near other flowers,' and we must infer that it Is because "the latter are not con-' genial to them. Heliotropes and vio-; lets have a lively sympathy for -each other;- and in jike manner there soems to be a warm friendship between pan-sies pan-sies and carnations." "If it can be proved that' flowers can love and hate," says : a German writer, commenting on this statement; "it ought .not to be difficult ' to prove that they have souls." |