A dissertation on oriental gardening / By Sr. William Chambers.

  • William Chambers
Date:
1773
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Credit: A dissertation on oriental gardening / By Sr. William Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Chinefe Artifts employ in thefe enchanted fcenes,, the vendezhang*, the ever-moving poplar, the pau-luf, with all kinds of fenfltive and other extraordinary trees, plants and flowers. They keep in them a furprizing variety of monftrous birds, reptiles, and animals, which they import from diflant countries, or obtain by crofting the breeds* Thefe are tamed by art j and guarded by enormous dogs of Tibet, monftrous dwarfs, and African giants, in the habits of Eaftern magicians. They likewife have amongft the plantations, cabinets, in which are collected all the extraordinary productions- 4. of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; as well as paintings, fculptures, medals, antiquities, and ingenious * The Vendezhang is a native of Siam; it bears flowers of an agreeable? fmell, which, when they open, are of divers colours, as red, yellow, white and black; the fruit, when it comes to maturity, has the exadt refemblance of a wild duck. f The Pau-lu is a tree very common in Bengal, and fome parts of China; to which the large Indian bats have a particular attachment, in fo much, that, during day-light, they almoft cover its branches, hanging upon them in clufters, like fruit. inventions
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