LITTLE WANDERERS. 
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WHY PLANTS TRAVEL. 
Plants are great travelers; they often wander far 
and wide. Sometimes they even cross the ocean and 
take up their abode in a new land. 
The oxeye daisy, our common meadow buttercup, 
and the little Canada thistle, now so abundant every- 
where, are not native Americans, but came here from 
Europe. 
Very likely they sailed in the ships with the early 
^ settlers and took possession of the New World with 
a them. They are so much at home now 
always 
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