“COME,” cried Bouncing Bet. “Now, I am going to tell you a wonderful, true fairy story. You never realized, did you, that plants travel? I mean that they travel without the help of human beings.”
“No,” the girls shook their heads.
“You can’t deny that they spread from place to place, can you?” asked Bet.
“Indeed, I can’t,” said Mary Frances; “the dandelions have spread all over our land within a short time.”
“And I’ll tell you how they did it,” Bet went on. “But first I’ll tell you—
Why Plants Travel
If the seeds of a plant always fell on ground nearby, the space would soon become choked up, and the new seed babies would have no chance to live; so, many plants have been provided means of sending their seed babies a long distance from the mother plant, and in this way they have spread or traveled from place to place, until some cover very large areas.