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When you go into the garden where a big sun- 
flower (Fig. 275) is trying to peep into your neigh- _ 
bor’s yard, I hope your eYes will be 
sharp enough to see that this sun- 
flower is a cousin to the field daisy, 
and that, although its brown cen- 
ter is much larger than the daisy’s 
golden eyes, it is made up of tube 
flowers (Fig. 276) shaped much 
like the tube flowers of the daisy. 
And you will notice, I am sure, 
that the yellow circle about this brown center is 
made up of strap flowers (Fig. 277) just like the Fic. 275 
white circle about the daisy center. 
And what is that which falls like a golden shower 
from the great brown center of the sunflower? Ah, 
you know well that that is the precious pollen which 
powders thickly the visiting bees and butterflies, and 
goes to make new sunflower plants. 
Fic.276 The picture at the head of this chapter shows the 
wild sister of the garden sunflower. ; 
When you come across the bright blue flower of 
the chicory, you will be reminded, I hope, of your 
dear old friend the dandelion; for the chicory head, 
like that of the dandelion, is made up entirely of 
strap flowers. 
But when you pick a spray of everlasting, whose 
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white and yellow clusters you find on the rocky hill- Fie: a9 
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sides, you will have to use your eyes with great care : 
if you are to discover that here, as in the great purple 
thistle head, are nothing but tube flowers. 
