THE VANISHING GARDEN
The six Australian cablemen on, Cocos Island are delighted when the relief boat arrives every three months bringing 20 tons of soil, states a writer in the "Children's Newspaper."
The cable station happens to be built on a mile-long strip of coral covered with coconuts.' Wonderful vegetables are grown for a time, until the coming of the monsoonal rains, when the soil gradually 'disappears into. the coral. Before their very eyes the disgruntled gardeners see their carefully tended vegetables transformed into a few straggly plants on the snow-white coraL But this is just one of the drawbacks of living on a speck in the middle of the ocean, and the cablemen patiently await the coining of another cargo of soil, when they begin the performance all over again. ' / .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 13, 15 July 1939, Page 27
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131THE VANISHING GARDEN Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 13, 15 July 1939, Page 27
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