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THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD 
bunches or even use in modeling doll furniture 
and crude little figures. Another common 
plant with prickly seeds is the Spanish Needle. 
It has a single seed with two sharp points that 
are hooked. Sometimes one person will have 
as many as a hundred of them sticking to him 
at one time. The wild animals help distribute 
these seeds even more than people or dogs. 
They live in the places where these wild plants 
grow and they can carry an enormous number 
of burrs in their shaggy coats. Sometimes an 
animal, such as a squirrel or rabbit, or even a 
fox, will carry them for a long distance before 
he can get rid of them. In this way the new 
plant has a chance to find a good growing place, 
far from home. 
And so burrs stick so that the seeds which 
they hold may be carried away from their parent 
plant to a new place which will be a good one 
for the new plant to make a start. 
