Show GOOD WORD FOR DANDELION americans could save money by ay cultivation of yellow flowered plant it is astonishing to labost of asto us to learn front from nn ion authoritative source that our annual supply of dandelion roots comes coined from froin Gerni germany austria and france by the way wild who started ilia notion that tills highly dec hornli 0 yellow flowered plant should be bunt banished shed where the owner makes a pretext ot of a well kept lawn well dandelions were made before lawns and luckily lucidly they persist in nourishing flourishing the leaves supply us with elih early greens and tho ilia roots with som something thIng renowned medicinally us good for the liver but why should our truck gardeners stand idly by while the makers of drugs import tons of dandelion roots every year from I 1 europe for the alio same reason very likely that american sugar beet grobeis growers puy buy or did before tho the warr thedr seed front from thrifty and enterprising german and french farmers fan ners for the same reason alint we havo been sending good money to europe for many another necessity tint that we vc might have produced ourselves without gulting wulting for a world word war to cut oft the supply just what tile tho reason Is it might bo be hard to say probably a part of it Is something we overlook when wo we boast of our national sheer laziness providen ce journal |