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sidewise ! Then there is that inverted or very 

 "dry" crescent moon in western twiHght 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 

 V/ parent branch to 



^N^'-'.-i:^ , I the support 



a' 



th 



in its 



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- 



