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according to the time they are wished to be in blossom. When 

 the season is dry, they will require frequent watering to ensure 

 fine flowers. These plants should be kept in a cellar or a shed, 

 where there is but little light. 



The common Provence and moss-roses are the most esteem- 

 ed for forcing, on account of their perfume. 



'• This soft family, to cares unknown. 

 Were born for pleasure and delight alone. 

 Gay without toil, and lovely without art, 

 They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.'" 



Mrs. Baubauld. 



This sweet emblem of love, like the human body, breeds 

 a canker in its bosom, that often destroys its heart. 



" She never told her love, 

 Bui let conrealraent, like a worm i'the bud, 

 Prey on her damask cheek." Shakbspkare. 



" Death's subtle seed within, 

 (Sly, treacherous miner \) working in the dark, 



* * * * 



The worm to riot on that rose so red, 



Unladed, ere it fell ; one moment s prey ' 



Youmg. 

 ( To be continued.) 



ARTICLE VL 

 ON CHINESE GARDENS. 



(Continued from page 14) 

 Their summer scenes compose the richest and most studied 

 parts of their gardens. They abound with lakes, rivers., and 

 water-works of every contrivance; and with vessels of every 

 construction, calculated for the uses of sailing, rowing, fishing, 

 fowling, and fighting. The woods consist of beech, oak, Indian 

 chesnut, elm, ash, plane, u-ton-shu (a beautiful specimen of the 

 sycamore, peculiar to China) common sycamore, maple, abele, 

 and several other species of the poplar; with many other trees, 

 peculiar to China. The thickets arc composed of every fair de- 

 ciduous plant that grows in that climate, and every flower or 

 shrub that fiourishes during the summer months; all: uniting to 



