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ORNAMENTS. 
Views and Reviews. 
Popular Science.* 
The above work has been appearing 
monthly for some time past, and will proceed 
until the completion of the same. Fourteen 
parts are already before us, and contain a 
great variety of subjects, many of which, of 
course, do not appertain to gardening. 
Several of the chapters, however, are of gar¬ 
dening interest, such as those of carnivorous 
plants, new plants for old, movements of 
plants, the sleep of plants, slugs and snails, 
a piece of coal, etc. Other chapters which 
we note deal with how to 1 make a chemical 
analysis, how glaciers move, flying reptiles, 
the wizard electricity, sunset, twilight, and 
haloes, the house fly and its parts, photo¬ 
graphy in colours, a piece of limestone, etc. 
It will thus be seen that the book appeals to 
a great variety of readers, and something will 
be found in it to please and instruct any 
reader. 
The most recently-issued number contains 
the chapter on “The Movements of Plants,” 
by the Editor, Mr. Galt, who was on the staff 
of The Gardening World some years ago, 
and is now in a different sphere of labour. 
In dealing with the movements of plants, he 
commences with some of the micro-organisms 
to be found in fresh water, as well as the 
small fungi that often do irreparable damage 
to garden and field crops. As the editor 
says, in old schoolboy days the 1 idea that was 
prevalent' in the minds of boys as to the dif¬ 
ference between a. plant and an animal was, 
that the former was fixed to the place where 
it grew, and that an animal could move from 
place to place. That idea, however, has oecu 
exploded since the days when Lindley and 
other writers of his days tackled the phvsio- 
lo°y of plants. On the confines of the animal 
and vegetable world the chief distinctions 
between plant and animal, or at least most 
of them, have been broken down, and while 
in certain stages of their life history it is 
practically impossible to state whether the 
* “ Cassell’s Popular Science. Edited b V ^l^andw S. 
ralt. Illustrated. Cassell and Co.. Ltd• Eondon,, Par ^’ 
?ew York, and Melbourne. 1903. Paits I. to XI v • • 
object under notice is a plant or an animal. 
If the object finally settles down and encloses 
itself in a cell wall of cellulose, we conclude 
that the object belongs to the vegetable king¬ 
dom, but while it possesses the power of 
movement we cannot even make such a claim, 
unless we had previously determined that it 
came out of such a cell. 
The movements of plants under review 
refer chiefly to the higher plants, but some of 
the most interesting cases occur amongst the 
lower organisms. A writer cannot give a full 
account of the movements of plants without 
including some of these organisms. Vo-lvox 
global or is the first to receive illustration 
in this chapter, and the object, or rather the 
colony of plants, being highly magnified, the 
writer who has never seen it before can 
glean some idea of this remarkable, interest¬ 
ing, and lowly species of aquatic plant. A 
much more common object is the alga, to be 
found in almost every pool of rainwater—at 
least, after it has stood for a while. It is also 
frequent in water-butts, which may become 
green if allowed to stand still in exposure to 
light; but those who are troubled with it can 
easily get rid of the same by putting a lid on 
the butt and keeping the water in darkness. 
The point of the stoiy here, however, is to 
show that this lowly organism is possessed 
of the power of movement at a certain stage 
of its existence. One of the class of injurious 
fungi to which we referred above, and which 
has tlie power of movement, is the race of 
slime fungi, one of which does irreparable 
damage to Cabbages, Turnips, Wallflower, 
and other members of the same family. At 
one stage of its existence this has the power 
of creeping over a field or garden, at a slow 
pace it may be, but still it is a moving mass 
of slime, which is able to go in search of fresh 
food, and to scatter about the fungus over a, 
greater area of ground. 
Amongst the higher plants, many very in¬ 
teresting cases of movement are found, even 
although the plants themselves do not often 
move from the place where the seedling 
originally sprang up. We refer to climbing 
plants which attach themselves to objects of 
support by means of tendrils, which twine 
round the object, or the whole plant may 
oscillate or swing round a given point, until 
it comes in contact with any object around 
which it can climb. These movements are 
