ON CHINESE GARDENS. 61 



one ounce of the oil of almonds to a pint of rose water, after 

 which, ten drops of the oil of tartar is to be added. 



We shall conclude our history of the rose with the lines of the 

 Ayrshire Ploughman. 



•' Never may'st thou, lovely flower 

 Chilly shrink in sleety show'r ! 

 Never Boreas' hoary path, 

 Never Eurus's pois'nous breath, 

 Never baleful stellar lights. 

 Taint thee with untimely blights ! 

 Never, never, reptile thiei', 

 Riot on thy virgin leaf! 

 Nor even Sol, too fiercely vie»v 

 Thy bosom blushing still with dew ! 



May'st thou lung, sweet ciinisoa gem, 

 Richly deck thy native stem; 

 Till some ev'uing, sober, calm, 

 dropping dews, and breathing balm, 

 While all around the woodland rings, 

 And ev'ry bird tby requiem sings; 

 'Ihou, amid the dirgeful sound, 

 Shed thy Hying honours round, 

 And resign to parent earth 

 The loveliest form she e'er gave birth." 



ARTICLE IX. 



ON CHINESE GARDENS. 



(Continued from page 40) 



He mentions one of them, that cost upwards of two hundred 

 thousand pounds, exclusive of the furniture ; another, consisting 

 of a hundred rooms: and says, that most of them are sufficiently 

 capacious to lodge the greatest European lord, and hia whole 

 retinue. There is likewise, in the same garden, a fortified town 

 with its port, streets, public squares, temples, shops, and tribunals 

 of justice, in short, with every thing that is at Pekin, only upon a 

 smaller scale. 



In this town the emperors of China, who arc too much the 



