Seed Babies with Wings
You’ve seen them often—seed babies flying about on the wings which their plant-mother gave them. Sometimes you have helped them start to fly.
Oh, yes, you have.
Don’t you remember when you pulled the fluffy head off a dandelion, and blew it to “see what time it was?”
Of course you didn’t know it, but you sent scores of dandelion seed babies floating off in the air on their fairy wings. Perhaps the wind took one up where you left off blowing, and landed it such a distance away from its old home that it might have seemed like hundreds of miles to the little thing.
Milk-weed seed babies fastened to their beautiful silky down, which is so light it floats along like a fairy’s feather, actually travel on the “wings of the wind.”
Some trees, too, give their seed babies wings. Haven’t the winged seeds of the maple fooled you into thinking they were birds or insects of some kind? It has amused you, too, to notice how far the wings of these seed babies have carried them on the wind.
“Haven’t the plant mothers provided wonderfully for their seed babies’ welfare!” exclaimed Mary Frances.
“Yes,” replied Bet; “back of the plant mother is another mother—Mother Nature. Oh, but she is wise!”