PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
In one corner of this prehistoric place, Mr. 
Allen discovered a few Corn cobs and about a 
dozen Squash seeds. More as a joke than any- 
thing else, he planted twelve of the seeds the 
next spring. 
Eleven of them remained insensate to the re- 
vivifying influence of earth, sun and water, but 
the twelfth took courage and, bursting the walls 
which had imprisoned it for hundreds and pos- 
sibly thousands of years, sprang up into a hardy, 
healthy vine, which eventually bore a huge, 
green, extremely warty Squash weighing nearly 
twenty-five pounds. This vegetable visitor 
from a shadowy age was named the “Aztec,” 
and attained great fame. 
There have been other and more striking in- 
stances of the suspended animation which per- 
mits plant life to lie quiescent for countless cen- 
turies, ready for an opportune time to resume 
the regular cycle of its existence. There are 
those who are always ready to cry “fraud,” and 
conclusively prove these marvels false, but 
there is abundant evidence to show that plant 
embryos can and, in some cases, do survive 
long periods of time. 
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