Subject: Re: dandelion jr high project

From: [email-masked] (Nancy Harrison)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 05:44:36

>My 12 year old daughter needs info on the common dandelion. 
>How long it takes for the seed to germinate?
>How long it takes to grow to maturity?
>How long  it lives until it dies?
>        WE have search the library but this information is pretty hard to come by for 
>city people. She has also E-mailed some of the edu groups but with no result 
>in over a week. Thank you for helping her.
>[email-masked]

Try the US Govt (USDA) which has published weed info for many years.  Their 
paperback weed book is one I use all the time (pub. by Dover Press).  You 
might be able to get to them over the Internet and ask a direct question.  
Good luck! - Nan in CA

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Arnold)
Date: 17 Oct 1995 15:57:44 GMT

>in over a week. Thank you for helping her.

See if you can get hold of a copy of "Dandelion" by Ladislav Svatos, published
by Doubleday, Garden City, NY in 1976.  It was  written expressly for children
and in about 30 pages described the life of a dandelion from seed to mature
plant.  Unfortunately, it may be out of print--the on-line bookstore I just
accessed via TELNET BOOKS.COM does not list it, which is a bad sign--but you
might enquire from a good bookstore or the publisher.  Your local library might
be able to get it on interlibrary loan (I know the New York Public Library has
it in their catalogue).

Hope that helps

Rob Arnold