Show some plants make rapid growth within few hours look at a great swede turnip and then at the tiny seed from which it has grown in a few weeks that seed has been enlarged by soil sun and air to something times its original bulk many english plants such for or instance as sunflowers sun flowers will grow at the rate of an inch or more a day in a warm moist weather observes a writer in london answers magazine in the tropics a shoot odthe giant bamboo which reaches 60 feet ini in i height has been measured to grow 9 inches in 24 hours with a strong glass one can actually watch its increase there are other green leaved plants which can almost match this growth given the right conditions but none of efthem them can hold a candle to the fungi which are found everywhere and under almost all conditions even in obrown our own cool country the growth of these plants is phe pha A specimen of the largest british fungus the was measured when full grown and found to have a diameter of 7 feet 5 inches anda weight of 34 pounds 1 it had taken 28 days to reach that size growing at the rate of 19 ounces a days day the giant puff ball is swifter still in growth and win will reach the size ofa ofa small pumpkin w within 24 hours the power ol of the growth in fungus Is equally remarkable at basing stoke fungus growing beneath some newly set paving lifted a stone t 22 inches by 24 1 inches es weighing no less than 83 pounds |