This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...often takes them up above the tree tops, and may finally drop them miles away from where they grew. Thistles, daisies, wild asters, milkweeds, and many other plants send their babies across the country in this way. So many do it that during late summer and autumn the air seems full of their white down--wee plant ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...often takes them up above the tree tops, and may finally drop them miles away from where they grew. Thistles, daisies, wild asters, milkweeds, and many other plants send their babies across the country in this way. So many do it that during late summer and autumn the air seems full of their white down--wee plant travellers hunting for new homes. In this way one big thistle, growing by the road, or in the fields of some careless farmer, will scatter its seed over many farms. This is quite hard on the farmer who wants to keep his fields free from weeds, but it is a good thing for the thistle. There is nothing more wonderful in the lives of the plants than the manner in which the parents provide for their babies, and make ways for them to travel to new homes. Watch the plants around you, and really learn to love them, and some time perhaps they will tell you stories as they do me. Let me tell you what one of the Dandelion babies once told me: I was sitting on a grassy hillside when I noticed the wind carrying many bits of Dandelion fuz past me. At last one lit close by nry side and I bent over to see it. The white down stood above the grass blades, but the little brown seed had pushed almost to the ground. To see it better, I took hold of the top and started to lift it out, but found that the stem clung slightly to the grass. I leaned closer to find why this was, and as I did so I heard some one say, "Please, sir, let me stay here. If you do I will soon be down in the ground, and then I can grow.' ' How are you going to get down farther than you are now?" I asked. "Very easily," was the reply. "My brown cover has little spines along it, sticking up toward the top. They were what caught and held me a moment ago when you started to pull ...
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Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Book Condition: Very good. Writing inside front cover board. Very minor rubbing on cover edges. Clean interior pages.
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Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in dark tan cloth lettered and decorated in black. 172 pp. Illustrated with drawings by E.H. Suydam. Little fairy-like creatures explore and explain nature. Very good, Board of Ed stamp front pastedown but no library markings.
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