FI^ORAL PIECe;s in florist's garden, happy valley, HONGKONG, CHINA 



Trained in the form of life-size human figures, with limbs, arms, and trunk, provided 

 with highly glazed and colored porcelain feet, hands, and head. These, with many other 

 potted plants and trees, including dwarf varieties, are grown under outdoor lattice shelters 

 in different parts of China, for sale 'to the wealthy Chinese families. 



--several treatises on agriculture and 

 drainage, and was finally called, much 

 against his wishes, to serve as Emperor 

 during the last seven years of his life. 



The history of the Hwang-ho is one 

 of disastrous floods and shifting of its 

 course, which have occurred many times 

 in the years since before the time of the 

 Great Yu, who perhaps began the works 

 perpetuated today. 



Between 1300 A. D. and 1852 the 

 Hwang-ho emptied into the Yellow Sea 

 -south of the highlands of Shantung, but 

 in that year, when in unusual flood, it 

 broke through the north levees and 

 finally took its present course, emptying 

 -again into the Gulf of Chi-li, some 300 

 miles further north. Some of these 

 -shiftings of course of the Hwang-ho and 



of the Yangtse-kiang are indicated in 

 dotted lines on the sketch map No. 3, 

 where it may be seen that the Hwang-ho 

 during 146 years poured its waters into 

 the sea as far north as Tientsin, through 

 the mouth of the Pei-ho, 400 miles to the 

 northward of its mouth in 1852. 



This mighty river is said to carry at 

 low stage past the city of Tsinan, in 

 Shantung, no less than 4,000 cubic yards 

 of water per second and three times this 

 volume when running at flood. This is 

 water sufficient to inundate 33 square 

 miles of level country 10 feet deep in 24 

 hours. 



CANAL ^.UILDFRS FOR CLNTURIFS 



What must oe said of the mental status 

 of a people who for 40 centuries have 



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