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THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
April 6, 1976

The first meeting of the horticultural society in
1976 met with Helen and Douglas Farquhar at the Cedars on
April 6th. All members present evidenced pleasure to be
meeting again. We were sorry that the Seilers could not
be with us; and we hoped that they would be with us the
next time, at the May meeting.

We partook of delicious food at the dinner, and
seconds were taken by several of the folks. After a short
period of visiting around, the meeting was called to order
by Robert Miller, our president. Mr and Mrs Fletcher,
Dr and Mrs Ken Gray, and our former member Dorothy Weske
were welcomed as guests. Joy Shotts was a guest.
The minutes of the last meeting of the Horticultural were
read and they were approved as corrected.

The reader of the evening was Mary Moore Miller.
She shared with us an article on The Strange Behavior of
Morning Glories. Morning Glories, as do other plants,
live in intimate relationship with the sun. Linnaeus, the
Swedish botanist of the middle 1700's, planted his garden
in the shape of a clock with each plant openning and clos-
ing at a predictable hour. Morning glories always open in
the morning, not just when the flower reaches maturity.
A stone in the soil also has a temperature rhythm that in-
dicates the time of day. but put a plant and a stone in
a dark cool cave or in a laboratory dark room and see what
happens. The temperature of the stone ceases to change in
cave or darkroom; whereas the plant has an internal clock
and its leaves keep rising and falling, running through
a complete cycle every 26 hours until it perishes from lack