Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 720
owers. Westover, Pa.Dear St. Nicholas: We raised a good many sun-flowers this summer, and some of them were quitelarge, we thought. The stalks were twelve feet highand eight inches around down near the ground. Thelargest sunflowers were sixteen inches across the seeds.One of the stalks bore… … LARGE SUNFLOWERS. Regarding the largest sunflower, we haveunderstood that some were exhibited at a fairin one of the Western States. One flower, placedon the top of a barrel, considerably overlappedit all round, being probably two feet in diameter.It was perhaps the variety known as Giant Rus-sian,…
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