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SHARP EYES 



Any consideration of winged seeds from the young 

 people's stand-point would be incomplete without men- 

 tion of those glistening, fluffy, fairy globes which deft 

 feminine fingers fashion from the ripening heads of the 

 thistle and bursting milk- weed pods by tying the com- 

 pact pappus with thread and drying in the sun. 



But now in September we may find a plant that fur- 

 nishes its fairy wares even without the aid of fingers,, 

 real brownie dust-brushes by the million, which house- 

 hold fairies find ready for use by the simple addition 

 of a pin for a handle. It is the glistening white puff 

 of the groundsel shrub (Baccharis), to be found every- 

 where along our coast from now until winter. 





