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NATURE) STUDY. 
A long list of other common local names has been applied 
to this much-admired, much-despised flower, among them 
being White-weed, Dog-, Bull-, Butter-, Big-, Midsum¬ 
mer-, Moon-, Horse-, Poorland-, or Maudlin-daisy, Dutch 
Morgan, Moon-flower, Moon-penny, Great White ox-eye, 
Poverty-weed, White Man’s weed, Herb Margaret. (Brit¬ 
ton and Brown). 
It is commonly distributed over the northern and east¬ 
ern United States ; less abundantly toward the South and 
West; yet to the friend living in northern Ohio a New 
York daisy field proved a revelation of beauty never wit¬ 
nessed before. 
The daisy has taken kindly to ou*r soil, and has evident¬ 
ly come to stay. It does not ask for much ; any waste 
place will do, and every year the whiteness grows till a 
veritable Milky Way has dropped from the sky. Begin¬ 
ning with May, it claims all months for its own into the 
fall season, but it especially loves the June days and the 
company of the buttercups and clover and swinging, blos¬ 
soming grasses, and it then puts forth its best show.. 
Occasionally, unbidden, it nestles among the mowing 
fields, and the practical farmer is at once upon his guard. 
To him, a daisy is a worthless thing, exhaustive to the 
soil and suggestive of poor land. Though the stalk be lain 
low and the heads allowed to wither and die, which, like 
others of the Composite family, contain a disk of count¬ 
less flowers, holding in development the seed of future 
daisy offspring, still the root remains, a perennial, and at 
least as many starry eyes look upward with the recurring 
seasons. It can be exterminated by pulling root and 
branch. John Bartram, that early pioneer botanist of 
America, back in the days of about 1758, in writing “ a 
brief account of those plants that are most troublesome in 
our pastures and fields, in Pennsylvania, most of which 
were brought from Kurope,” thus mentions Ueucanthe- 
