Wild Flowers as They Grow 



Then the blooms wither, but are quickly changed 

 into small, rather dingy, feathery balls, feathery 

 because each minute seed is crowned with a ring 

 of single hairs, and the golden wand becomes a 

 long-handled feathery brush. Soon the little ball 

 breaks up, the last stage of communal hfe has 

 arrived, and the individual members (now the fruits) 

 of which it is composed have for the first time in 

 their existence to start off alone and unattended on 

 a voyage of discovery for a home. 



There is an old tradition that the Golden Rod 

 is also a divining rod, and that, in right hands, it 

 can point to hidden treasures of gold and silver. 



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