Stephen Troyte Dunn

Name: Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China
Author: Stephen Troyte Dunn

Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

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“Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China”, published in 1908, is a work by Stephen Troyte Dunn. It explores elements such as planting, Hongkong and Chinese.

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ Tree-ferns, too, grow in the more sheltered parts of the gardens with great ease and luxuriance. They form, together with the palms in the Glenealy Ravine, one of the most charming pieces of scenery to be found anywhere. ”

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ Long before coming to Hongkong I remember hearing of the gardens as some of the most beautiful in the world, although small, and probably there are many visitors who would endorse that opinion. The almost precipitous mountains which rise to the south enhance the luxuriant effect of the vegetation.
The Botanic Gardens are not the only ones maintained by the Government. A small garden was made in 1904 on the waste ground left vacant by the resumption of an insanitary and crowded portion of the Chinese quarter of Victoria under Sir Henry Blake, and called Blake Garden. ”

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ Horticulture in Hongkong has one great advantage over that in most other places, and one great disadvantage—the former is secured by the peculiar climate, which allows of the cultivation, almost to perfection, of some of the finest flowering shrubs in the world; while the latter is the regular occurrence of typhoons, which always damage the gardens more or less every season. On the whole, however, this may be said to be an easy place in which to produce a good garden. ”

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ Numerous expeditions have from time to time been organised for the botanical exploration of neighbouring parts of the continent, and the large number of plants thus discovered and published in botanical journals during the last quarter of a century bear witness to the value of these researches to the botanical world. ”

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ In time the reproach of the arid sand hills which form so conspicuous a feature of that landscape at the present time will be removed by the growth of the trees which have already been planted over a large portion of the ground.
The streets of the city are particularly well provided with shade, trees and roadside plots of flowering shrubs and evergreens which have been planted by, and are under the care of, this department. The tree which has been most frequently employed for street planting in the past is the Chinese Banyan (Ficus retusa) . ”

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ It is a very quick-growing, hardy tree, and valuable as a binder of loose slopes. Although a continuous series of experiments have been made with other trees of all kinds which might have been supposed to be suitable to this climate, no good substitutes have ever been found for it up to the present time. ”

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ The economic side of the work over and above that dealing with forestry, has been shown in the introduction of improved varieties of crops into the agriculture of the new territories; but those who know the Chinese best will not be surprised to be told that they have not profited much from European enterprise in this respect. The export of economic products has probably been more valuable than the imports. Large collections of samples of Chinese vegetable economic products have been made from time to time, and sent to the Imperial Institute, where they may be seen in the Hongkong Court. ”

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Stephen Troyte Dunn, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ There were, it is true, one or two small patches of virgin forest, such as that now existing on the north side of Little Hongkong village, and there were, doubtless, small groves of pine trees round the fishing villages which dotted the coast, but the sides of the mountains in general were bare of trees, and, in many places, bare even of grass. ”

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