Why Weeds Gbow Apace.—There may be 130 flowers having, seed-vessels on- a single plant of groundsel, and in each seed vessel there are 50 seeds; ; Thus, one groundsel seed is father 6,500 sons, more than there are of visible stars in the firmament.: Many of these settle where 'they cannot live ; many exist only to. be eaten by birds. It is not meant that all seeds should produce plants, very many are as muchi jbread to the birds as seeds of corn are bread to us._ If, however, by an accident, every son to which a thriving groundsel seed is parent, grew up, throve, and produced new seed in the same Sroportion— an impossible assumption^the ecendants of a seed of groundsel in the second generation would exceed in number 40,000,000; the telescope itself has not enabled us to see so
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 520, 28 October 1857, Page 4
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