Show strength of a flower A rock split asunder by it a growing tree that lias has found lodgment in what was wag at first only a small crack Is ft a fa sight fight to most people the that a treo tree exerts in accomplishing this lent ta lis tremendous but relative relatively lg it Is not equal to that exerted by the tha bower that john burroughs describes in a recent book the breath 01 0 life one of the most remarkable exhibitions of plant force I 1 ever saw haw was it in a western city where I 1 observed a wild sunflower Bun flower forcing its way up through the asphalt aspli alt pavement the folded and compressed leaves of the plant like a mans man 9 alst had bad pushed against the hard but flexible concrete until it bulged up and split and let the irrepressible plant through alie force exerted must have beon been ninny many pounds I 1 think it doubtful if the strongest yan man could have pushed its ills list through such buch al resisting in medium edlum life activities are arc n kind of explosion and the slow continued explosions of tins tills growing plant rent the pavement ns as surely as powder would have done it Is doubtful it if any cut cul plant could lave have overcome such buch odds it required the force of the untamed hairy plant of the plains to accomplish tile the feat |