48 Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 



thorny projections; so if the "blow-away" ends 

 its flight against any moving object with a rough 

 surface, the coat of an animal, for instance, or the 

 clothing of a traveller, the attached fruit will catch 

 and cling, and thus be carried still further from its 

 starting point. 



These methods of pushing the family fortunes 

 have proved so successful in the past that the 

 dandelion is now distributed as a weed in all 

 civilized parts of the world. 



So Nature has cared for the gamin of the fields. 

 How could the queenliest orchid be better cared 

 for by the most scientific gardener of them all ? 



