A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya MountainsJ. Murray, 1852 - 398 стор. |
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... colour , and it soon affords an agreeable shade from the fierce rays of the sun , which renders it pecu- liarly valuable in a place like Hong - kong . The India - rubber tree ( Ficus elastica ) also succeeds well in the same part of the ...
... colour , and it soon affords an agreeable shade from the fierce rays of the sun , which renders it pecu- liarly valuable in a place like Hong - kong . The India - rubber tree ( Ficus elastica ) also succeeds well in the same part of the ...
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... colour , and beautifully striped with green , as if done by the hand of a first - rate artist . I sent a plant of it to the Horticultural Society in 1844 . At the bottom of the terrace on which the house stands there is a long narrow ...
... colour , and beautifully striped with green , as if done by the hand of a first - rate artist . I sent a plant of it to the Horticultural Society in 1844 . At the bottom of the terrace on which the house stands there is a long narrow ...
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... colours are more brilliant , than they are in England . Here , too , are gorgeous specimens of the new Vibur- nums ( V. plicatum and V. macrocephalum ) sent to Chiswick in 1845. The first English apple - tree fruited in this garden ...
... colours are more brilliant , than they are in England . Here , too , are gorgeous specimens of the new Vibur- nums ( V. plicatum and V. macrocephalum ) sent to Chiswick in 1845. The first English apple - tree fruited in this garden ...
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... colour . Women and boys were sailing about on all parts of the lake , in tubs of the same size and form as our common washing - tubs , gathering the fruit of the ling . I don't know of any contrivance which would have answered their ...
... colour . Women and boys were sailing about on all parts of the lake , in tubs of the same size and form as our common washing - tubs , gathering the fruit of the ling . I don't know of any contrivance which would have answered their ...
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... colour , much prized by the Chinese . The slabs which are quarried out of the hill are used for various ornamental purposes , but they are more particularly in demand for the building of tombs . Large quantities are taken down the river ...
... colour , much prized by the Chinese . The slabs which are quarried out of the hill are used for various ornamental purposes , but they are more particularly in demand for the building of tombs . Large quantities are taken down the river ...
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amongst appearance arrived Azaleas bamboo banks beautiful black teas bloom boat boatmen Bohea mountains brought Buddhist canal Canton chair chair-bearers Chang-shan China Chinamen Chinese Chusan Chusan archipelago colour coolies cultivation dinner distance England English Fcap feet flowers Fokien Foo-chow foreigners formed garden green teas growing Hang-chow Hang-chow-foo hills Himalayas Hokow Hong-kong Hwuy-chow India island journey kind lake land leaves LORD luggage mandarin miles morning moutan Nan-che natives nearly night Ning-po observed onwards pass picul plantations Plates Portrait Post 8vo Poyang lake priests procured province Prussian blue quantity rain rice river road rocks scenery Second Edition seeds seemed seen servants Shanghae shrubs side Sing-Hoo soil soon species specimens stream Sunderbunds taels TEA DISTRICT tea-plants tea-seeds tea-shrub temple Third Edition town travellers trees Tsong-gan-hien valley vegetable Vols walked Wang Woo-e-shan Woodcuts young plants