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ON CHINESE GARDENS, 



and a quarter of well-rotted cow-dung, not sifted but broken -with 

 a spade. After potting they are removed to the greenhouse ; 

 when water is supplied moderately till they begin to vegetate, it is 

 then gradually increased at discretion. 



By this mode of treatment, I have had flower stems five feet 

 high, and in one pot as many as twenty flowers ; their large pure 

 white and lovely blossoms, so delightfully fragrant, amply repaid 

 me for my trouble. The plants are well deserving a place in every 

 greenhouse, being easy of culture and so strikingly and delicately 

 beautiful. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON CHINESE GARDENS. 



(Continued from page 158.) 

 Some of these are very small, sufficient only to contain one or two 

 weeping willows, birch, larch, laburnam, or some other pendant 

 plants, whose branches hang over the water ; but others are large, 

 highly cultivated, and enriched with lawns, shrubberies, thickets, 

 and buildings: or they are rugged, mountainous, and surrounded 

 with rocks and shoals ; being covered with fern, high grass, and 

 some straggling large trees, planted in the valleys : amongst which 

 are often seen stalking along the elephant, the tin-hyung or man 

 bear, the rhinoceros, the dromedary, the ostrich, and the sin-sin 

 or black giant baboon. 



There are other islands, raised to a considerable heighth, by a 

 succession of terraces, communicating with each other by various 

 flights of magnificent steps. At the angles of all these terraces, as 

 well as upon the sides of the steps, .are placed many brazen 

 tripods, that smoke with incense ; and upon the uppermost platform 

 is generally erected a lofty tower for astronomical observations ; 

 an elegant temple, filled with idols ; the colossal statute of a. god ; 

 or some other considerable work : serving, at the same time, as an 

 ornament to the Garden, and as an object to the whole country. 



They also introduce in their lakes large artificial rocks, built of 

 a particular fine coloured stone, found on the sea-coasts of China, 

 and designed with much taste. These are pierced with many 

 openings, through which you discover distant prospects : they 

 have in them caverns for the reception of tortoises, crocodiles, 

 enormous water-serpents, and other monsters; with cages for rare 



