Free Seed Distributions 



claim to exactness in dealing with the 

 quantity of seed produced each year 

 by various trees and plants, but I know 

 that if you pick one of those wonderful 

 spherical gray dandelion heads, and 

 look at it closely, you will find your- 

 self in the midst of a miniature forest. 

 The little brown trunks are growing in 

 a pale-green soil, and each sends up a 

 tall white silken tree with a star-like 

 top. No master spider weaving his 

 astounding net, no human lacemaker of 

 highest skill, has ever surpassed the 

 fascinating fabrication worked out by 

 this pest. Here is another case where 

 the seed is equipped for aviation, al- 

 though in a manner differing from the 

 thistle-down. The thistle grain has 

 sails which radiate from a common 

 centre. Each tiny dark-brown dan- 

 delion seed-sheath sends out one fairy 

 thread that puts forth laterals at the 

 top. These, interlacing, form the outer 

 surface of the fluffy globe you never 

 stop to study. How many seeds in 



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