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If you children once make yourselves well acquainted 
with the make-up of the daisy, seeing with your own 
bright eyes (not believing it just because I tell you it is 
so) that there are many little flowers where most people 
think they see only one big one, you will never forget 
it as long as you live; and you will know something 
that many of the big people about you do not know. 
Some day while walking across the fields I think you will 
enjoy surprising them by pulling to pieces a daisy, and 
explaining to them this favorite flower trick. 
ROBIN’S PLANTAIN, GOLDEN-ROD, 
AND ASTER 
LONG the roadsides, in the month of May, grows a 
flower which you children call a blue daisy. This 
has the yellow center of the 
field daisy; but the narrow 
outer flowers which © sur- 
round the yellow center are 
not white, they are blue. 
The real, name ‘of. this 
flower is “robin’s plantain.” 
It is not a daisy, though it 
belongs to the same big 
familys Here, too, the yellow? center ‘is 
made up of many little tube-shaped flowers. 
Later in the year the fields are white and *"% 79 
purple with beautiful asters (Fig. 269). It is easy to 
