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Show I DANDELION HAS REDEEMING QUALITIES The dandelion Is a most offensive weed to the man who cultivating a iawn. is kept busy digging up the Intruder In-truder with little yellow blossoms but the government experts on edible weeds declare The leaves of the plant are good to eat and they recommeml that the weed be prepared for food in much flu- same manner that spl i ach is cooked Describing the uses of weeds. ;i government publication sas hile the leaves of the dandelion are always nutritious, they acquire :i bitter flavor as they approach maturity matur-ity Hence the best leaves for edil purposes .ire the yoUDg sprouts that shoot forth in early sprint;. Th- Inter In-ter flavor of the obit r leaves may be avoided, however, by boiling in two water. Most of these weed6, that ought to be classed as vegetables, have their season In t'je spring. According to the best medical opinion, they than perform a dual function; for all of them In addition to the nutritive qualities they possess, are in a mil 1 1 degree medicinal In effect, clearing j from the blood and tissues the stac j nant humors of thij winter season. Chief among the edible weeds of the United States is the dandelion 1 The edible portion of I he plant are the leaves which grow close to the ground, rarely extending more than an inch In height The plant is. when fully grown about six or eight inches in width measuring across the breadUi of leaves which have a notched or serrated appearance, and, before they are plucked, are as crisp as frosb lettuce They rapidly wither, however, how-ever, when separated from the root If the dandelion should take the place of spinach on the tables of Ogden Og-den it might not be long before the owners of lawns would accept the weed as worthy of a place among the grasses and flowers that enrich the appearance of so many homes in this T. city- |