ARTICHOKES AND OTHER 

 GARDEN SPECIALTIES 



Finding New Wild Food Plants 

 in the Woods 



DOUBTLESS the greatest labor-saving 

 scheme ever devised by any flower to 

 meet its essential needs is that adopted 

 by the Sunflower family — the tribe popularly 

 represented by the sunflowers, asters, thistles, 

 and daisies. 



The botanist classifies the members of this 

 tribe as Compositce or Compound Flowers. The 

 name might be misleading if taken to imply that 

 the flowers of this family differ essentially from 

 other flowers. But the individual flowers of this 

 tribe are in all essentials of pistil and stamen 

 like other flowers. So the modern botanist 

 objects to the name "Compound" as applied to 

 them, although he retains the Latin title that 

 they have borne for some centuries. 



But if we properly interpret the term, the 

 name "compound flower" seems appropriate 



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