Freaks And Marvels of Plant Life; Or, Curiosities of Vegetation
The book Freaks And Marvels of Plant Life; Or, Curiosities of Vegetation was written by author Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), B. 1825 Here you can read free online of Freaks And Marvels of Plant Life; Or, Curiosities of Vegetation book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Freaks And Marvels of Plant Life; Or, Curiosities of Vegetation a good or bad book?
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The cowslip and primrose can sip The pure mountain dew as it flows, But you, ere it touches your lip, Coyly raise your red petals and close ; METEORIC FLOWERS. 265 The rose and the sweet briar drink With pleasure the stores of the sky, And why should your modesty shrink From a drop in that little pink eye ? ' Many of the night-blooming flowers are fragrant ; it would seem that because they expand at a period when, on account of the darkness, beauty of appear- ance would be futile to attract, th...ey compensate for this by diffusing delicious odours. The great water- lily ( Victoria regid) is really nocturnal, as are some others of the water lilies, and the magnificent night- blooming cereus {Cerens grandiflorus) is one of the finest, as well as one of the most fragrant of flowers. The evening primrose (CEnothera biennis) is very unlike a primrose, except in colour. Here and there a blossom may be seen expanded in the daytime, but the majority of the flowers do not open till six or seven o'clock in the evening, and then they are slightly fragrant (fig.
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