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the balloons were carried off by the wind. Then the wind was blowing west and 

 there was a clump of bushes and behind these bushes it was just white, for the 

 w^nd could not get at them and blow the dandelions away. I think next year 

 that all the fields around this field will be covered with dandeUons because the 

 wind must have planted some seed there. 



The sky was overcast with clouds when I gathered the basket of dandelions. 



The dandehon I am studying has seven buds not open yet and on top they 

 feel like silk. Your nephew, 



We are sorry that we have not the name of the writer of the above. 

 The letter pleases us because the young naturalist not only gathered 

 and studied the dandelions, but he also noticed other out-door things, 

 — the direction of the wind, the overcast sky, and where the dande- 

 lion seeds fell. 



