Show FLOWERS THAT TELL TIME M punctual to the minute in closing their petals there are flowers that act as time keepers for those who have by observation studied their ways and habits and so punctual are they that laboring men in some countries tell from them when the hour for dinner and leaving work has come while in certain districts the school children arc are said to be dismissed when the goats beard closes which it does punctually at the same time every day the gardener to a millionaire has provided a flower clock in the shape of a circular flower bed with nith twelve divisions each of the division 4 1 from one to twelve contains flowers which open or close at the corresponding hour thus the two space Is occupied by a 1 1 11 II made of hawkweed hawk seed which closes at 2 p m precisely and so on he ile had no difficulty in finding flowers to suit stilt the several hours and in some cases eases the figure has been made of more than one flower amongst the flowers used are the snow thistle blue chicory pimpernel marigold star of bethlehem and evening primrose the yellowstone Yell yellow ostone stone park contains the most unique greenhouse for flower cultivation in the world the heat beat being obtained from one of the natural hot springs or geysers the water of which issues from the earth at a temperature near boiling point the shortest lived flowers are the dew flowers of tha the death valley in call fomia heavy dews are wafted by the winds from the mountains over the parched plain and an hour or two tao before sunrise the moist sand with its undercurrent under current of warmth gives life to the dew flower when the lightle light begins to glow in the east myriads of tiny pink flowers burst into bloom hugging the and for the few minutes they are destined to live the suns rays como come slanting across the bair u face and as thought a touch of fire had passed over them the dew flowers wither and disappear montreal herald |