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Show GOOD" WORD FOR DANDELION t Americans Could Save Money by Sys- " f tematio Cultivation of Yellow- 5 Flowered Plant. r It is astonishing to most of us to i- learn, from an authoritative source, .- that our annual supply of dandelion t roots comes chiefly from Germany, s Austria and France. By the way, who started the notion that this highly decorative dec-orative yellow-flowered plant should a be banished where the owner makes a 5 pretext of a well-kept lawn? 1 Well, dandelions were made before . e lawns, and, luckily, they persist in flourishing. The leaves supply us with e early '"greens," and the roots with somthing renowned medicinally as 1 'good for the liver." But why should 6 our truck gardeners stand idly by g while the makers of drugs import tons 3 of dandelion roots every year from 0 Europe? g For the same reason, very likely, that American sugar beet growers buy e or did, before itie war their seed from thrifty and enterprising German and French farmers. For the same j reason that we have been sending good .money to Europe for many unother necessity that we might have produced ourselves without waiting for a world war to cut off the supply. Just what thereason is It might be ' hard to say. Probably a part of it is something we overlook when we boast of our national characteristics sheer laziness. Providence Journal. s |