"Of course!" says Peggs.

Now, all of this was heard by Kernel Cob and Sweetclover, for all
flowers and vegetables understand the language of people, but people
do not understand the language of flowers and vegetables; and when
Kernel Cob and Sweetclover talked, Jackie and Peggs couldn't hear them
because flowers whisper very softly, and even if the children could
hear them they couldn't understand them, you see, because it's a
different kind of language and they never had heard it.

Sometimes, if you are a child, and sit in the garden when the wind is
blowing, and listen, you may hear a kind of whispering among the
flowers. And if you look very closely, you will see them sway toward
each other and smile and nod their heads. Well, that is when they
whisper in each other's ears just as if they were children.

And all vegetables are like that too, only the corn has a louder
voice, because the wind loves to blow through its ears and make it
wave so it looks like a great green ocean.

"Did we have a mother and father?" asked Peggs.

"Of course!" answered Jackie, "Everybody has to have a mother and a
father, except orphans."

"Are we orphans?" asked Peggs.

"I guess we must be," said Jackie, "I heard Auntie tell somebody, the
other day, that both our parents were lost."