60 
And here is the fruit cluster of the dandelion (Fig. 
59), and also a single seed sailboat (Fig. 60). 
Hundreds of other plants attach these 
little sails to their seeds. You can hardly 
walk a step in the fall along the country 
roads without meeting these masses of 
feathery fruit made up of just such seeds. 
So now we come back to our 
questions, ‘‘Where are they 
are they doing?” 
going? What 
And as you have learned why the apple 
tree ai.d the par- tridge vine pack their 
seeds in_ pretty 
dock and the stick- 
hooks and bristles, 
cases, and why the bur- 
tight cover theirs with 
FIG. 60 
you ought to answer 
these questions very easily. You found that those plants 
wished to send their little seeds abroad, so that they 
might get a better foothold in some piece of earth that 
was not used already by plants hungry for the very 
food that they most needed. 
This is just what the thistle and milkweed and dande- 
lion and aster want for their seeds; and this is why 
they fasten them to little sails, and send them far away 
on a voyage of discovery. 
