2 LITTLE WANDERERS. 
and when the Pilgrim Fathers looked over their new 
home the fields were not white with daisies nor yellow 
with buttercups. 
No doubt the Pilgrim Fathers were glad of this, for 
daisies and buttercups often cover the fields and spoil 
the hay, and while " daisies in the meadow " seem very 
lovely to the city people who go to the country for the 
summer, daisies in the hay are another matter, and the 
farmers do not think them lovely at all. 
It is not the grown-up plants that travel, as a rule, 
though some of them do. For you must know the 
plant world is a topsy-turvy kind of place where the 
parents stand still at home and the children wander 
about. 
Of course the children are the seeds, and they are 
free, but when they once settle down and begin to 
grow their wandering days are over. 
Plants with roots are great home-bodies; nothing 
short of actual violence can make them move from the 
spot they have chosen. Frequently it happens that 
they die if moved. 
Not so with the seeds, however. 
They wander about, and their parents often take 
great pains to send them out into the world. 
For the children of the plants are very apt to die if 
they remain at home too long. They need to find a 
place in which to settle down and grow, and it is often 
