China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . e mouth of the well. ^Yhere the water is drawn from ponds,two buckets are used. Each is provided with a spout, and they areattached to the ends of a bamboo pole, which a labourer bears onhis shoulders. Having filled his buckets with water by dijipingthem into the pond, he pours their contents upon the vegetableor flower-beds, without removing the pole from his , in his Natural History, (9, 14), describes methods ofirrigating gardens in his time, not dissimilar to those employedby the Chinese. As a rule, gardens i
China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . e mouth of the well. ^Yhere the water is drawn from ponds,two buckets are used. Each is provided with a spout, and they areattached to the ends of a bamboo pole, which a labourer bears onhis shoulders. Having filled his buckets with water by dijipingthem into the pond, he pours their contents upon the vegetableor flower-beds, without removing the pole from his , in his Natural History, (9, 14), describes methods ofirrigating gardens in his time, not dissimilar to those employedby the Chinese. As a rule, gardens in China are not contiguous to, or in wayconnected with, the houses of those to whom they beyond the precincts of the city, they are often amile or two distant from the liomes of the proprietors.^ It isevident also from the allusions that the gardens mentioned in 1 This remark applies only to gardens properly so called ; for trees and flowersare not unfre(iuently found in the courtyards of the residences of Chinese gentle-men. (I I l-l H 1 45^fe^^.
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