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Show Ton Much Dandelion. Calfornia has a new grievance the dandelion. Some years ago it is said that a citizen imported from the east the seed of tho old fashioned dandelion. Ho wanted something to remind huu of his early home. Like tho man who imported im-ported the sparrow, he did worse than he knew. Tho sparrow is everywhere, bo is the dandelion. Tho seed drifts in the wind like that of the thistle, tho down is built into the nests of birds, and every seed which gets a lodgement on a lawn or grass plot will, in duo lime, produce pro-duce a million more. Now the solitary dandelion is very attractive in bloom, and hardly less so when after tho blossom blos-som the gauze globe appears, and a few days afterward goes sailing olf before the wind like a small balloon. liui the citizen citi-zen who is forced to dig up his lawn because be-cause a mill ion dandelion roots have strangled tho grass will utter no benediction bene-diction over this rich golden blossom. |