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Show dry roadside, has become a homely, uninteresting tiling to the eyes of most Utoniuns. Familiarity breeds contempt in this case, sure. It has come to that pass that this plant is now looked upon more as a pest than as a thing of beauty. It is an amusing sight to most Utah boys and girls to watch an easterner for the first time set eyes on a great field of sunflowers, lie will go into testacies over their "superb beauty," and ten chances to one will rush into the field and gather a whole armful before his appetite for Oscar Wild's favorite is fully satisfied. There is one remarkable feature worth mentioning connected with the Utah sunflower. The firmer may take Ids plow and go out in to a sagebrush desert miles from where these plants were ever known to grow. He plows up a tract, either one acre or a thousand thou-sand acres, and as sure as the sun shines, next season when he visits the spot, he finds every square yard of plowed ground growing sunflowers almost as thick as the stalks in a wheat field. Where such quantities of seeds come from is a mystery. I THE SUNFLOWER. Familiarity Makes it Homely A Peculiar Pe-culiar Feature. The sensitive sunflower, w hose frank, op-, n face meets one's gaze i in the orchard, the field, on the mountain, the desert or along the |