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Show A PLANTS IN THCin SLUMDER. I Species That Remain Dormant R "hrough the Winter. l'lanta aleep much the tame aa anl I mala Their sleep la quite real and D It reality ran he shown l'erhapa the I heat marked form of .lumber In the I vegetable world la that of the great I winter real, when ao man) aptcles tr- I tire nllogethr under the sheltering I Mill, and there lie ikirmanl, aide by I aide with the slumbering anlmala How doea the Ioiik winter rest of anl mal differ, after all, from the winter rent of the rrocu or the h)aclnth, which withdraw nil the living material from their leaea In autumn nnd bury tliemaelvea Inchea deep In the oll In i he aliniie of n bulb till I'ebruary rnlna 1 or April anna tempt leave nnd (low era nut again The whole vast claa nf butbou and tuberoua planta. Indeed tho llllea, orchlda, daffodllt. narclial tulips, squills, blucbella and snowdropi are lhr not Just hibernating crco turea, which retire underground In au ,r tumn with tho slugs and tho quren ' I wssps. to icapMr In spring about the iwmc tlmo with the return to up- 1 per air of the molea, tho tortolaea am tho frltlllar) buttcrflm? |