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Show three may take its place. Of course, repeated cutting at short intervals will exhaust the tap root, and you, too. So I want to again thank the Salt Lake City Corporation for their efforts in helping me to have their exclusive kind of "pot o' gold" which makes my yard look anything but like the end of the rainbow. Merle Richie DANDELIONS IS JUST DANDY. Comes the Springl And with it the push to get out in the open. And my "open" is about the size of a 9 by 12. But ohl What can be done with it is nobody's business. bus-iness. That is, no one's except the Salt Lake City Corporation. They take an active interest in my garden and lawn development every year. Now take for instance their dandelions. They raise millions, yes, billions of them. Down the middle of the highways, along the parkings, in the parks they just nod their merry little yellow heads in glee and survey the countryside roundabout looking for a nice place to hole in when Mother Nature turns them loose. And when Mother Nature and the Salt Lake City Corporation work together on a proposition their lavish generosity is something you can't help but see. Because Mother Nature has produced quite a number num-ber of winged fruits and seeds. These have tufts or tails of woolly or silky hairs. There's the willows . and poplars, the clematis or virgin s -bower, the milkweeds, willow herbs, dandelions, lettuces, and thistles all carried on wind by such devices. Not only do they come to visit-they visit-they come to stay. These juvenile dandelion deliquents hole in. Then on one of your mad days you go out and try to root them out. But when you try to dig them up it's all or nothing. If you leave any of the root at all what is left produces - adventitious (now there's the rightf word for the right place) adventitious buds and especially so when the root is .injured and they form on the upper end of the cut root and where there was one dandelion before, two or |