Show gardening in ili a mine 0 seventeen acres of garden three hundred foot feet below the surface of the eattle e 11 ali was the unusual sight un on ii aich ell the writer looked a few days ago anti ami lie at once decided to tell the readers or of the youths Coni Comp anlou something about llis strange subterranean garden gardell the whole place was shrouded in the most intense darkness except tile small circle of light from my lay flickering torch as I 1 stood in an abandoned gallery of out one of the hie great gy puni mines near grand rapid kapias mleh ilich which mitch mr A IL II apted assistant assi t superintendent of the eagle mill s his into profitable mushroom I 1 garden it is well known that niu mushrooms grow most freely iu in the daik conc arches anti and tunnels for their culture are arc constructed in many parts of the this fact suggested to to mr apted it a few years ago the lie idea of attempting attempt iii to cultivate mushrooms br 0 for the maikos ill ciket in ILI the abandoned galleries of thu old minea ilis his first attempts ai were ere discouraging but after several years work and the be expenditure of much money lie he lias has broucht liis ills odd garden to a 1 paying condition lie ile is able to place several bundled pounds of plants on oil tile market each week and readily I 1 10 40 cents a pound for the nabo le crop there are seventeen acres of area in ili the abandoned galleries all and mr ir kp ap tod tell Is able to cultivate nea nearly whole space the soll hull for ills his bells beds Is pie pared in the open air arid and is drawn draw 11 1 in wagons to the place where it Is used attempts hive have been trade made to raise mushrooms in coal aud anti iron mines but without success A small garden similar to al clr r Is cultivated I 1 in an old it at akron abrou N Y und and those two art are probably the only places in tile the world where abandoned lines are successfully dutli utilized for the purpose |