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Show ISLAND OF MANY MEMORIES Visitor to St. Helena Almost Sure to Find Something to Remind Him cf Home. St. Helena, the Island where Napoleon Napo-leon Bonaparte spent some six years of exile and where he died in 1821, has one of the most peculiar landscapes In the world, and by reason of the great variety of trees and planta that grow there. For many years the Island was a sort of ocean crossroads where all ships plying between Europe and the East stopped for supplies. It was uninhabited un-inhabited when discovered and most -of its population is made up of the descendants de-scendants of persons who deserted from passing vessels. European, African Afri-can and Asiatic peoples are all represented. repre-sented. Nearly all of these settlers of many Taces and nationalities tried to Introduce Intro-duce into the island plants and trees from their home countries, as people are wont to do the world over. Some of these failed to survive, but a surprising sur-prising variety of crops and trees throve in the semi-tropical climate and rich soil of the little island. As a result re-sult the English, oak tree today grows beside bananas and palms. Raising -dates is an industry of the valleys, while Scotch pines grow on the uplands, up-lands, and some of the level land is -covered with English gorse. Lemon and orange trees are to be found not far from patches of bramble and groves of willow. A visitor from almost al-most any part of the world may look ; about and fipd a bit of landscape to remind re-mind him of home. "Niksah," In Chicago Chi-cago News. . |