LXI 
THE MORNING-GLORY FAMILY 
I SN’T IT ODD that so few 
of us ever stop to think of 
the remarkable resemblance 
between two vines that we 
have known all our lives and 
to wonder what that resem¬ 
blance means! 
The sweet-potato vine and 
the morning-glory vine, if examined carefully, will be 
found to be very closely alike. The one grows out in the 
vegetable garden and makes the production of food on 
its roots its chief business, and the other grows over the 
back fence and contributes its blossoms to the beauty of 
the world in the early morning. These two purposes are 
far apart, but the leaves and the vines of the two plants 
are much alike. 
They are, in fact, cousins. They are the principal 
members of the morning-glory family. They still look 
alike, as is the way of kinsfolk, but they have lived such 
different lives that each is without the chief trait that has 
come to mark the other. 
The thing of importance about the sweet potato, for 
example, is the fact that it puts up, at its roots, a neat 
package that man has learned to use as a food. Cousin 
Morning-Glory serves no such useful purpose. 
The thing of importance about the morning-glory is 
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