PART VII 



THE POWER OF SUNLIGHT 



I — Flowers in Sunshine 



You remember how the Daisies on the lawn Hfted 

 up their faces towards the Sun. And Daisies do not 

 stand alone in their seeming love of sunshine. Many 

 other flowers depend even more upon it. 



For example, Sunflowers are looked upon as great 

 Sun-lovers. Some of them really are too huge for 

 beauty ; such thick yellow masses ! The name was 

 given to them because of their devotion to light. It 

 has been said that no Sunflower is ever seen with its 

 back to the Sun. 



This perhaps is not quite correct; for if the plant 

 were not in good health, and if in consequence the stalk 

 were weak, the flower might not be able to carry out 

 such movements. But no doubt it would do its best. 



A gardener told me that, one day many years ago, 

 he saw in Kew Gardens two great beds of these flowers, 

 in full bloom. And among them all, large and small — 

 some plants standing ten feet high — ^he found not one 

 single bloom that did not face the Sun. 



The same thing may be seen with the curious rolled 

 leaves of an Onion-plant — not a Shallot. 



If we should examine a row of them in the evening, 

 towards sunset, we should probably find the greater 



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