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ces, that is, whether they be placed in heat, in a shady border, 

 cool frame, or pit. When glasses are used, the greatest care 

 must be taken that they be kept regularly wiped at least once a 

 day to prevent damp from destroying the cuttings. Cuttings 

 placed in a cool shaded border, frame or pit, should certainly be 

 covered with bell or hand glasses, and these should remain on 

 until they are rooted, and taken off only for the purpose of being 

 wiped, and any damp or mouldiness removed from the surface of 

 the sand in which they are placed. Regularity in watering, and 

 also in shading, is absolutely necessary to insure success. When 

 the young cuttings begin to grow, air must be gradually admitted 

 to them, so that by the time they are rooted and fit for transplant- 

 ing they may be able to withstand the sun's heat, and free expo- 

 sure to the air. 



(To be continued.) 



ARTICLE III. 



ON CHINESE GARDENS. 



(Continued from page 108.) 

 There are, in different parts of China, many works of the kinds 

 just mentioned ; but amongst the most considerable, are counted 

 the Passage of King-tong, the Bridges of Fu-cheu, those ofSwen- 

 chew and Lo-yang, with the Cientao, in the province of Xensi. 



The first of these is a communication between two precipices, 

 composed of twenty enormous chains of iron, each two hundred 

 feet in length, which are covered with planks and earth, to form 

 the road. 



The second is a cluster of bridges between Fu-cheu and Nanti, 

 uniting various islands, that divide the river into different streams 

 the principal of these consists of one hundred arches, of a suf- 

 ficient size for the passage of ships under full sail ; it is built of 

 large blocks of hewn stone, and enclosed with a magnificent 

 marble balustrade, the pedestals of which support two hundred 

 Colossal lions, artfully cut in the same material. 



The third is a bridge at Swen-chew-fu, built over an arm of the 

 sea, that sometimes is very boisterous : it is above three quarters 

 of a mile long, thirty-five feet wide, and consists of one hundred 

 and thirty piers, of an astonishing height, upon which are laid 

 vnst blocks, of a greyish granite, that form the road. 



