Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — Floating Gardens. [ARTICLE]

Floating Gardens.

On the rivers of Cashmere are thousands of floating gardens, formed by long sedges which are woven together In the form of a gigantic mat. These sedge grasses, flags, stalks, lilies, etc., are woven on the river or lake banks while their roots axe still growing In the slime underneath. The required amount of earth Is then superimposed upon the mat, the stalks are then.cut and the mat and its load are a fall fledged “floating garden.’ They are usually about twenty by fifty yards In extent, seldom larger, the full - depth of the mat and its earthy covering being about three' feet A dishonest Cashmiri will sometimes tow his neighbor’s garden away from Its moorings and sell the produce of the other’s tolL The writer has frequently seen one of the largest being towed by two men In a rowboat which hardly looked larger than one of the luscious melons serenely reposing on the floating track farm.

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