Show s new dress opportunity to study na A unique in restoring the vege ture a processes tation tatlo nofa of a land swept clean by a gleat disaster r was afforded after the tremendous erupts eruption on of the volcano on the little island of in 1883 all living organisms were destroyed in 1886 a number of plants had al ready established themselves on the devastated island those in the in perlor being remarkably different from those on the coast terns ferns especially preponderating in 1897 further ress had been made and in 1906 the forest trees had advanced so tar far as to make it evident that within a short time the island will again be densely forested it Is believed that the first plants to establish themselves on the blasted soil such as terns ferns algae mosses and grasses were borne thither by winds and that ocean currents were probably the a agents gents concerned in the importation ot of seeds and fruits youth s companion |