ABSTRACT
OF recent years the outlook of Science on the world of plants has become much more generous than it used to be. It has been proved that the average plant is nearer the animal, in a sense, than Linnaeus thought when he said : “Stones grow; plants grow and live; animals grow and live and feel.” If “feel” means answering-back to outside influences, there is no doubt that plants feel. They have a life of far greater intensity than was previously suspected.
