Meanings of floating gardens in English

The floating gardens are a unique and very pretty characteristic of Srinagar.

Morning, with the rising sun, summoned the court again to the feast and wine-cup in the floating gardens.

These floating gardens were about a foot above the water, and in the form of a long square.

The Aztecs built their floating gardens when Mexico City was sited on what was still a giant lake.

Before us lay the tranquil lake flecked with islands, which looked like floating gardens of green on a purple mirror.

Explore the tropical island with visits to pagodas and floating gardens, ride the Irrawaddy River and see sunset from Mandalay Hill.

Covered with aquatic plants, they resemble here, as in the Mississippi, floating meadows, the chinampas or floating gardens of the Mexican lakes.

After breakfast, business hours begin; so we took ourselves off to visit the canal of Chalco, and the famous floating gardens-asthey are called.

Tedge remembered that girl- aCajangirl whom he once heard singing in the floating gardens while Tedge was battling and cursing to pass the blockade.

The Spaniards saw, too, with surprise and admiration, floating gardens-someof them of considerable extent-onthe surface of the lake, covered with flowers and shrubs.

Humboldt for once, with all his caution, seems to have fallen into the common trap, and credited, without examination, the story of the floating gardens.

"The Floating Gardens of Ancient Mexico," the "Dutch Story," "Immortelles," "Mummy Peas," etc., etc.