48 Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 
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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? 
