Show V ak 1 I WONDERFUL CARDEN THIS I 1 at itze ast the he stor story y about it Is woo won berfal Vuon gb most pe people 0 P le says the portland ore conlan have headid of the hanging gardens of babylon the modern roof gardens and the gardens or floating boating islands in which vegetables used to be grown for the efti citizens zens of ancient mexico W ex but probably few have heard beard of a garden on board a ship with farmyard attachment the splendid ship mow han ban now in port and the largest vessel which his has ever been here bad such an arrangement on board during her trip to oregon on leaving belfast tol foi portland the took on board as ballast 2000 tons of I 1 irish rl ab soil boll which when leveled off made quite a stretch of ground and as the soil of ireland Is proverbially proverb lally fertile the ships company proceeded to put it to good use by planting a stock of garden truck in it cabbages leeks turnips radishes lettuce peas beans etc the seeds came up all right and the plants flour dished finely and when the ship was in the tropics grew with great rapidity As they progressed toward the horn and the weather grew colder things icamen came to perfection rapidly the crew amused themselves by weeding and cultivating tiva ting the plants and the captain and officers took regular walks in the garden daily kand all had green vegetables i to their hearts content As they came around the horn the 1 garden garigen was replanted and by the time they r reached c the equator bator everything was abloom and all hands feasted or fresh vegetables dally daily the only drawbacks to the garden were the weeds which grew so BO rapidly that they could hardly be kept kepi down and the drove of IP pigs I 1 gs which were kept in the farm yard attachment and which on several ia I 1 occasions when the ship was bucking aing into a and rolling heavily broke out of the bounds and made serious inroads in the garden it Is a 3 I 1 serious matter to call on hands bands on board ship and Is only done in emergency but when the pigs got into ane garden there was more pounding on the forecastle scuttles and handspikes and blowing of boatswains whistles than if the ship had been laid aback by a typhoon or all the masts had been carried away and every sleeper was aroused to help get the pigs out of the ga garden aden I 1 the last pig was killed and served up with green vegetables just before the 1 mowhan bowhan entered the columbia on the I 1 arrival of the bowhan mowhan here the irish soil was discharged on the elevator company companas comp anys a dock and piled up neatly so that any exiled patriot who desires desire a bit of the sod can be accommodated mo dated the pile will doubtless be covered with shamrocks sham rocks in the spring i and will furnish boutonnieres for a I 1 j whole st SL patricks day procession I 1 doubtless many a sack of it will bt be I 1 tarried off to fill flower pots etc alf though it comes from the black north I 1 it is still the real soll sod |