| Show Now Its It's All Right night to Mow Your Dandelions i ANN ARDOR ARBOR Dan MICH delions have almost ceased from troubling lawn anxious householders householders house house- holders but Prof Cart Carl D. D La- La of ot the University of Michigan Is ls offering for tor future reference the results of his hll study of ot teed behavior be be- havior bulor In tn the heads of ot dandelions mowed nII before the seeds wele rille He lie undertook his Investigation be cause causa he lie had man Inquiries as 10 o whether dandelion heads cut I by the th would go ro on and I ripen tillen seed that would sprout later I He lIe cut ort ofT a lar lare e number of ot the heads bead at various stages of ot develop 1 I inert t and let them lie on moss until they had fully dried Then be he examined and placed the seeds un 11 der conditions for germination He lie found that In ln all heads cut at at I any anI stage before the white while down dOWD I I to began beran to to show the closed green creen sheath after the petals had wilted the lee seeds S looked quite unpromising Ind nd that their germination performance did not belle their looks They all aU I failed talle to sprout In fact after afler ten tenda da days the they had all aU decayed I La Lanue Hue concludes Ap 1 then until the Jile white of ot I dandelion begins to extend beyond Wron the green tI tips I. I th the heads beaUs may be cut and allo allowed to dry oo on the Ia lawn n without any danger t spreading the Ibe seed j |
