Personality of plants

PERSONALITY OF PLANTS
In one corner of this prehistoric place, Mr.
Allen discovered a few Corn cobs and about a
dozen Squash seeds. More as a joke than any-
thing else, he planted twelve of the seeds the
next spring.
Eleven of them remained insensate to the re-
vivifying influence of earth, sun and water, but
the twelfth took courage and, bursting the walls
which had imprisoned it for hundreds and pos-
sibly thousands of years, sprang up into a hardy,
healthy vine, which eventually bore a huge,
green, extremely warty Squash weighing nearly
twenty-five pounds. This vegetable visitor
from a shadowy age was named the "Aztec,"
and attained great fame.
There have been other and more striking in-
stances of the suspended animation which per-
mits plant life to lie quiescent for countless cen-
turies, ready for an opportune time to resume
the regular cycle of its existence. There are
those who are always ready to cry "fraud," and
conclusively prove these marvels false, but
there is abundant evidence to show that plant
embryos can and, in some cases, do survive
long periods of time.
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