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will not bear forcing ; I find them bear all the heat, combined 

 with moisture, that you like to give them, and that too without 

 drawing them, provided the flower buds are visible before you 

 begin to force them. In fact it is impossible to get some of 

 the late sorts to expand their bloom in such a season as the last 

 without using a high temperature. R. Freestone. 



ARTICLE VI. 

 ON CHINESE GARDENS. 



(Continued from page 61.) 



Air is likewise employed with great success, on different occa- 

 sions ; so as to form artificial and complicated echoes • some 

 repeating the motion of the feet, some the rustling of garments 

 and others the human voice, in many different tones; all which 

 are calculated to embarrass, to surprise, or to terrify the passen- 

 ger in his progress. 



All sorts of optical deceptions are also made use of: such as 

 paintings on prepared surfaces, contrived to vary the representa- 

 tions as often as the spectator changes place : exhibiting at one 

 view groupes of men, in another combats of animals, in a third 

 rocks, cascades, trees and mountains; in a fourth, temples and 

 colonades ; with a variety of other pleasing subjects. They like- 

 wise contrive pavements and incrustations for the walls of their 

 apartments, of Mosaic work, composed of many pieces of marble 

 thrown together without order or design, which, when seen from 

 certain points of view, unite in forming lively and exact represen- 

 tations of men, animals, buildings or landscapes; and they fre- 

 quently have pieces of architecture, even whole prospects in per- 

 spective, which are formed by introducing temples, bridges ves- 

 sels and other fixed objects, lessened as they are more removed 

 from the points of view, by giving greyish tints to the distant parts 

 of the composition ; and by planting there trees of a fainter co- 

 lour, and smaller growth, than those that stand on the foreground 

 thus rendering considerable in appearance, what in reality is but 

 trifling. 



The Chinese artists employ in these enchanted scenes the ven- 

 dezhang, (a native of Siam, it bears flowers of an agreeable smell 

 which, when they open, are of divers colours, as red, yellow 

 white and black ; the fruit, when it comes to maturity, has the 



