JlLY, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



573 



Around the Office —Continued 



lion) has taught him one especially ser- 

 \i('eable trick in the line of self-preserva- 

 lion. He used to come forth in the spring 

 ;;s a strong man to run a race, erect his flag- 

 pole anywhere from 6 to 15 inches high, 

 and proceed to blossom up there and scatter 

 his seeds from that eminence. This worked 

 all right till the frolicsome lawn-mower 

 came along — and then it didn't. But did 

 I lie dandelion knuckle to a little bother like 

 a hiwn-mower? He did not much. He of 

 (he lawn variety just proceeded to take his 

 1)1( ssom off the high blossom-pole, throw the 

 ])( le away, and now comes up out of the 

 ground blossom first or blossom in a hand 

 satchel, " lays low " to the ground, and re- 

 marks as the lawn-mower passes harmlessly 

 above him, " never touched me." Some 

 evolutionary class to that variation to meet 

 new conditions of environment, ch! And 

 how durned mad it makes the lawn-mower! 

 * * * 



The ginseng and golden-seal raisers occa- 

 sionally get tangled up in the wrong kind of 

 roots. Just to prove it, " listen here." 

 The A. T. Root Co. issues an annual supply 

 catalog — many thousands of them — ^which is 

 popularly called the Root catalog. That 

 sounds just like any other kind of root cata- 

 log. So a fellow who is a root-grower or a 

 root-collector or a root something from 

 down in Pennsylvanina, sends along this let- 

 ter to The A. I. Root Co.: "Thought I 

 would send for your catalog on roots. If 

 you people do not handle roots any more 

 than i-aising them, would be pleased if you 

 would send me the address of some reliable 

 firms that you are acquainted with that buy 



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