Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1910 — Railway Yard Plants. [ARTICLE]

Railway Yard Plants.

It' has been noticed that many plants not natives of the locality, are -to be found growing in the neighborhood of great railroad yards. Sometimes the seeds of these plants have been brought thousands of miles from their natural habitat. Ofteb (hey flourish amid their new surroundings and grad* ually spread over the surrounding country. Thus the trains carry unsuspected emigrants, which travel to and from every point of the compass. In the Missouri valley are to be found plants which within a few years past have thus been brought together; some from the Atlantic seaboard, some from the gulf region and some from the other side of the Rocky mountains. —Harper's Weekly.