Morning Glory

a well known flowering plant. There are well on to 500 closely related twiners in the entire group. Our beautiful garden morning glories, now advertised by seedsmen, are mostly from Japan. The morning glory is raised easily. Seeds soaked a few hours in warm water before planting have been known to produce flowers in six weeks. The name is derived, of course, from the fact that the flowers, crimson, yellow, blue, violet, purple, pink, rose, and white are at their best in the morning hours. The florists of Japan have taken a deep interest in the development of morning glories. In 1830 a craze for a special sort led to the payment of from $10 to $18 reckoned in our money, for single seeds. Quite a literature of these plants, richly illustrated, exists in the Japanese language. The sweet potato is a prosaic relative.