Show Streng strength of a flower A rock split asunder by a gr growing owInA tree that lias has found lodgment in what whal was at first only a small crack is a fal fa minor millar sight to roost most people the force that a tree excites in accomplishing this feat is tremendous but relatively it Is not equal to that exerted by tho the bower that iJohn burroughs describes in a recent book the breath 0 oi life one of the most remarkable exhibitions eions of plant force I 1 eversal ever saw was in a vy estern city where I 1 observed abild a wild sunflower forcing its way up through the asphalt pavement the folded and compressed leaves of the plant like a mans fist had pushed against the hard but flexible cone concrete rete until it bulged up and split and let the irrepressible plant through the force exerted must have been many pounds I 1 think 1 it t doubtful it he strongest Itron strongest gest man could have pushed his fist through such a f resisting medium life activities are a kind of explosion and the slow continued explosions of this growing plant rent the pavement as a surely as powder would have done it Is doubtful if any cultivated plant could have overcome such odds it required the force of the untamed hairy plant of the plains to accomplish the feat |