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A Gigantic Garden. —China has the largest 
population of any country in the world. It has the 
longest and greatest wall ever built, and it has also the 
largest and most fertile garden ever cultivated. The 
Chinamen, who walk over bridges built two thousand 
Winter Wreath of Grasses and Leaves for Wall. 
years ago, have 50,000 square miles around Shang¬ 
hai, which area is called the Garden of China. This 
area is as large as New' York and Pennsylvania com¬ 
bined; it is all meadow-land, raised but a few feet 
above the lakes, rivers, canals—a complete net¬ 
work of water communication—the land under the 
highest tilth ; three crops a year harvested; population 
so dense that wherever you look you see men and 
women in blue pants and blouse, so numerous that you 
fancy some fair or coming off. 
