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EYE SPY 
sidewise ! Then there is that inverted or very 
"dry" crescent moon in western twilight skies; 
and how seldom do we see the beautiful law of 
the twining tendril appreciated in the most care- 
ful design of the botanical draughtsman ! 
For years the tendril was to me the conven- 
tional spiral, twisting like a continuous curl or 
spring from the 
parent branch to 
the su PP rt 
within its 
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clasp ; and it is safe 
to assert that not 
one in well, a good 
many of us, who should have 
gone out to our grape-vine 
or passion -vine or melon - 
patch, without a previous forewarning, would have 
been able to tell correctly the pretty little story 
of its tendril methods, or have even noted the 
curious little kink which is the infallible peculiar- 
ity of the climbing tendril. 
What is a tendril botanically speaking ? That 
depends. It is one thing in this plant, quite an- 
