Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — The Dandelion. [ARTICLE]

The Dandelion.

Those who have been pestered to death by the irrepressible dandelion on their lawns may now take heart. The pest will pester them no more. Eastern markets have begun to utilize them for greens, so that gardeners will cultivate them for sale. The plant having thus become useful, the bugs will eat it off above ground, the grubs will saw its roots in two, the sun will parch it to death, the rains will drown it out, the wind will thresh it to strips and bovs will dig it out and steal it. Thus the dandelion, which tas been among the first of weeds to coax its way into human favor in the spring by throwing out its golden blossom as a sort of flag of truce and peace offering combined, will retire from the field and the lawn, to the seclusion of the guarded greenhouse.