THE OOLOGIST. 



The Resurrection Plant, 



-ONK OF THK- 



GREATEST CURIOSITIES OF THE AGE. 



Found cling-ing' from the barren rooks on the Santa Rosa Mountains of OLD MEXICO. 

 Called by the Mexicans Siempre-viva, meaning ALWAYS LIVE. 



" This singular Plant is really one of the wonders of creation. Imagine a bunch of withered looking, 

 curled up shoots, brown, stiff, and apparently dead, resembling a bird's nest. Place it in water, in half an 

 hour what a transformation ! The withered looking bunch has now opened and is transformed into a lovely 

 patch of green moss, entirely covering an ordinary plate. In its native habitat, when the dry season sets in, 

 the plant curls up into a round ball and is wafted away by winds from place to place, sometimes foi hundreds 

 of miles, when at last it reaches a moist spot it gradually unfolds itself, makes new roots and thrives in its new 

 found home. 



DIRECTIONS. — Place the dry plant in water entirely covered for two hours, then take out and put in 

 shallow dish with only roots in water, after remaining in water for a few days, allow the plant to dry up again- 

 then p»rform the operation as before. The plant will never die, and will open and shut as often as placed in 

 and taken out of water. 



We expect to sell thousands of these plants during the next few months; A more desirable and curious 

 Xmas present would be hard to find. The plant must be seen to be appreciated, and knowing that where we 

 sell one of these plants we are almost certain of selling several more, we have decided to sell at the following 

 very low prices, viz . i plant, post-paid, for only 15 cents ; 2 plants for 25 cents ; 10 for $1.00, or 25 for $2.25 ; 

 or better still we will send you one of these plants and the Oologist for 1887, for only 28 cents. ('I hese plants 

 are usually retailed at 50 cents each.) Our Agent is at present in Mexico gathering a new stock of these 

 curious plants, and in order to have them better known we are desirous of having a good live agent at every 

 Post-Office in the Union. Address plainly, 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y. 



