Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . WATER FOR TERRACED GARDENS 71. 72 TO HONG-KONG AND CANTON Walking among these gardens and isolated homes, we passeda pig pen provided with a smooth, well-laid stone floor that hadjust been washed scrupulously clean, like the floor of a I was not able to learn other facts regarding this case, Ihave little doubt that the washings from this floor had been care-fully collected and taken to some receptacle to serve as a plant food. Looking back as we left Hong-Kong for Canton on the cloudyevening of March
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . WATER FOR TERRACED GARDENS 71. 72 TO HONG-KONG AND CANTON Walking among these gardens and isolated homes, we passeda pig pen provided with a smooth, well-laid stone floor that hadjust been washed scrupulously clean, like the floor of a I was not able to learn other facts regarding this case, Ihave little doubt that the washings from this floor had been care-fully collected and taken to some receptacle to serve as a plant food. Looking back as we left Hong-Kong for Canton on the cloudyevening of March 8th, the view was wonderfully beautiful. Wewere drawing away from three cities, one, electric-lighted Hong-Kong rising up the steep slopes, suggesting a section of sky setwith a vast array of stars of all magnitudes up to triple Jupiters;another, old and new Kowloon on the opposite side of the har-bour; and between these two, separated from either shore by widereaches of wholly unoccupied water, lay the third, a mid-straitcity of sampans, junks and coastwise craft of many kinds segre-gated, in obedience to
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