Show flowers bloom on icebergs arctic explorers often report the discovery ot of flowers blooming on oa icebergs the explanation of this Is as aa follows it appears that some animals carry on their feet a growth of moss abich A s deposited on tho the tee ice whiter while it Is attached to the mainland in polar regions in time this decays and forms forma a shallow soil in which the seed of buttercups butter cups and dandelions often find a lodging borne by currents cur renta of wind that doubtless caught them up in some southern clime these take root and bloom when the great gleaming iceberg floats out to sea and la is carried southward where the soft winds melt pio ahe surface and give the plants the moisture they need k |