Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — The Famous Hanging Gardens. [ARTICLE]

The Famous Hanging Gardens.

Every one, young and old, has heard of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but few persons, perhaps, know how they were constructed. They were about four acres in extent, and were built on a base supported by pillars. They rose in terraces to a height of 300 feet, and It is said that they looked, from a distance, like a great pyramid covered with trees. Strange to say, they owed their existence td the whim of a woman, Queen Amytls, who grew so tired of the plains of Babylon, and pined so much for the hills of her native Media, that her husband, King Nebuchadnezzar, had the gardens built to please her.