Show ISLAND OF MANY MEMORIES j Visitor to St Si Helena Almost Sure to t j Find Something to Remind Him cf Home I I St Helena the Island wh where re Nape 1 Nape leon Icon Bon Bonaparte parte sp spent nt some six years years' of exile and where he died in 1821 has I Ione Ione Ione one of the most peculiar landscapes i I In the world and by r reason as n of the thou I great variety of ot trees and plants plant th ti tf grow V there For many years the Island was was wasa a sort of ocean crossroads h where r all ail I ships plying between Europe and the i East stopped for supplies It was vas Uninhabited unInhabited uninhabited un un- inhabited when discovered and most of Its population is made up of ot the descendants descendants de do- of persons who deserted J from passing vessels European AfrIcan African can and Asiatic peoples are are all represented seated S Nearly all of these thee settlers of many races and nationalities tried to introduce Intro intro- t duce Into Into the llie he Island plants and trees from their their home countries as people i iare 1 are wont vont ont to do th the world over Some of these failed tailed to survive but a sun sur sur 1 I variety of crops and trees throve In the semi tropIcal semi tropical climate and rich soil sell of ot the little island As a are are- re re-i i suit the English oak mk tree today crows beside bananas and palms Raising dates Is an Industry of the valleys while Scotch pines grow on the uplands uplands uplands up up- lands and some some of the level land Is Is' Is covered with Englich gorse gore Lemon I and orange trees are to be he found not i far from patches of bramble and groves of willow A visitor from almost al al- i most any part of the world may look ab about ut and fita find a bit of landscape t to remind remind reo re- re mind him of home In Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago N News e s. s I |