. An encyclopædia of gardening; . he natives, is raised from seed, the art of grafting or laying beinguiih^nown. Water is the grand desideratum of every description of culture in this coun-try. Without it nothing can be done either in agri-culture or gardening. It is brought from immensedistances at great expense, and by very curious con-trivances. One mode practised in Persia consists informing subteiraneous channels at a considerable depthfrom the surface, by means of circular openings at cer-tain distances, through which the excavated material isdrawn up (Jig. 34.) ; and the channels so for
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . he natives, is raised from seed, the art of grafting or laying beinguiih^nown. Water is the grand desideratum of every description of culture in this coun-try. Without it nothing can be done either in agri-culture or gardening. It is brought from immensedistances at great expense, and by very curious con-trivances. One mode practised in Persia consists informing subteiraneous channels at a considerable depthfrom the surface, by means of circular openings at cer-tain distances, through which the excavated material isdrawn up (Jig. 34.) ; and the channels so formed, areknown only to those who are acquainted with the country. These conduits are describedby Polybius, a Greek author, who wrote in the second century before Christ; and Morier(Journe!/ to Persia) found the description perfectly applicable in 1814. Doves dung isin great request in Persia and Syria, for the culture of melons. Large pigeon-houses 35.) are built in many places, expressly to collect it. The melon is now, as it was.
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