Excerpt from The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, 1853, Vol. 8
It is well known to every observer of what passes around him in nature, that plants exhibit day by day certain periodic phenomena analogous to those of sleep in animals. Either the leaves alter their position so as to exhibit a totally different appearance, or the flowers close more or less partially; either phenomenon taking place within certain fixed limits of time and circumstance. It is to the former of these cases that our author has directed his attention, as, in his opinion, more strictly allied to the periodic rest which is so essential to the sustenance of animal life in health and vigour. He Shall, however, speak for himself.
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