Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Balsam. [ARTICLE]

Balsam.

The common balsam has a most singular method of disseminating Its seeds. When they are ripe and prepared for germination, the pod explodes with tho sligtest touch, and the seeds aco squtterod in every direction with such force as to carry thorn a distance of twenty or thirty feet. Plants liavo many curious methods of scattering their foods, but there is none stranger than the vegetable artillery represented by tho balsam. ('