Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

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China. The woods are full os the tong~£hu% the wha-
tsyau f, the tsi-shu J and pela-shu §3 with the tye-li-mu ||,
the nang-mu**, the tse-tangss, and other common
timber-trees, useful sor fuel or building; which also
produce chesnuts, walnuts, acorns, and many profitable
fruits or seeds: both the woods and groves abound with
game of all sorts.
The shrubberies con ss st of song-lo, vu-i, and mau«
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cha , dwarf mulberry, cotton, rose, rasberry, bramble,
currant, lavender, vine and goosberry bullies ; with
barberry, elder, peach, necftarine and almond trees. All
the walks are narrow, and carried under the drip of the
trees, or ikirts of the plantation, that they may occupy
no usesul ground : and of the buildings, part are barns
for grain or hay ; part stables for horses and oxen ; sorne
are dairies, with their cow-houses and calf-pens; some
cottages for the husbandmen, with (beds for implements
* A species of the walnut-tree, -f The pepper-tree. J The varnilh-tree.
§ The wax-tree. || Iron wood. ** TheChinese cedar, said never to decay,
•sf The rose-tree. J J Different species of the tea Ihrub.
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