Scientists claim that it has been discovered * hat P lants have deep and sensitive moral reelings.; American botanists, after some amazing tests, so far as to c ' a ' vn some plants f,4 w 'ood from bad. The 'mistletoe. i. „r (hit oftou lias beeti accused of n, " 1,, v , . • .. . =, . , . y *j, nurusite, it invariably _ •tt'lches itself to a tree and sends its roots through the" bark to absorb some Of the tree's energising sap, is now credited with possessing a sense of fair , a sort of morality, because when uJoc'winter days covue and the tree L Ae its leaves the mistletoe sends b,ck into the trunk of the tree much of the nourishment it borrowed.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 28 November 1930, Page 10
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