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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1929, Page 6

C'H LOEOKORMING TREES. A theory Hint trees have definite feelings is put forward by Mr Herbert G. Longford, writing for the Women’s Farm and Garden Association. Mr Longford states that it is now possible to fix instruments to trees to prove that they are attracted or repulsed bv 11 it* presence of human beings in the .siiiue way that some human beings experience "a feeling -of revulsion or restfulness when passing among trees, “If has been reserved to scientists ol the present generation,” he writes. “to conceive and produce instruments oi marvellous delicacy, proving by the production of visible record that all living plants have nerves which respond to electrical shock, to heat, and to cold—as do oiirs—and a throbbing pulse which, -.varies , Datura I ly—as does our own—during iinies of wakefulness and sleep, which can be stimulated ;snul excited to excessive activity or slillec in instnjnt death by poison or overstrain. IStill 'further, it can he proved to demonstration thaHlhcir reactions to chlorbforms and other anaesthetics are identical with tlhrphenomena exhibited )>v the aninudlAVorld.-. G'rewn trees, under the i'nlinohde of. drugs have heeii transplanted with untreated similarly, selected frees have died.