SLEEPING OUT
How would you lik<* to sleep all the winter through? Yet doormice do, and many other things in nature. And if you worked day and night during the summer, you would probably want to. Now plants are just like that. They never have any tin.e off during the summer—eating all day long and growing at night. Bo they want a long rest. And they gather underground all the good things to eat that they can And. so that when autumn frosts nip off tlieir flowers and leaves, what do they care? Underground you may And their storehouses—thick, brown, fleshy stems, swollen tubers and bulging bulbs, gorged with food. And hidden there somewhere is the living shoot —still asleep, but ready to wake again at the first kiss of spring, to have a good breakfast, and to push through the ground like a young giant refreshed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 35
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147SLEEPING OUT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 35
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