Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1918 — Plant Strength Will Force Stones Out of Their Place [ARTICLE]

Plant Strength Will Force Stones Out of Their Place

One would scarcely associate great strength with so delicate and fragile a thing as maiden hair fern, yet if its roots have not sufficient room they will break the pot in which the plant grows. Blades of grass win force the curbstones between which they spring up out of their place. Indeed, plants are on record as having broken hard rocks. The island of Aldabra, to the northwest of Madagascar, is becoming smaller through the action of- titer mangroves that grow along the foot of the cliffs.