480 THE GARDENERS’ a a AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Si 26, 1860; 
eleased from taxation at the first | men „who has any pretensions | which nothing can be more bre: T. 
convenient op eee to skill fect ev ge tho ut, | divi vided them into five series, ad Haller into o tiret, 
In th hil di = Ty Our figu Bea sents eneral appearance of All these were, I however, og Ss theoretical than p etic: al, 
Sean N TDO AEAT CAPPE j DE a i t mape banet or andtwo 
Mr. GLADSTONE’S a will „haye done good. other. I here tempted to make a sification mae 
that th aper makers É; e aw r us fumery Ys y 
adopting the princip'e that as there are primary 
colours from which all secondary shades are com. 
posed, there are also primary odours with perfect 
ori 
of securit § 
re wi ee able ga removed at very brief 
notice, hf manufacturers are wise the oy will be 
pre epared. fo i 
a shaking 
th ser uld tha 
change be deferred for ears, ‘a the Meena 
thi 
aper lately read before the atita of Arts 
Be Forges Watson may be usefully consult A 
zarie m the earliest ages perfumes have bee ih in 
Wo years ago w so e an account of a tafe tn ee, vilis sed nations, both for sacred and 
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heen ancl opal vena tted in one of o 
ether oe two. young and eefin that perfumes originally 
a a hale mould, the came from Elam, or ancient Persia, but it is mor, 
“treads sad bis ne from plant to plant, carrying | ero pret spores uketi magnified. lhe natural to suppose that they were discovers’ se et iat 
tructi them n every direction. „Grea — in the various countries whìch produced them, such 
‘ as spices in India, Balm in Judæa, Frankincense. ir 
= these jaak a arrived in an unsatisfactory | ON THE ART OF PERFUMERY, ITS HISTORY, | Arabia, &c., and thence carried to other places in ‘the 
condition after a journey of more than 150 mile s. AND pipe eee ee course of trade. vas i mern we find of them in 
MMEL.. the Scriptures is when Joseph was sold by his A 
A paari Case a h we ve [Abridged Ss pi pasy of the Soc to some Ishmaelites who came from Gilead with their 
own oo ae in whic ae ave ‘been enabled to PERFUMERY may b be defitied ts the ot of pa ee mels, ahve pio pe and Balm, and Myrrh, and 
watch t pavasite 3 Fi Sah À early stage, and presenting in a convenient and fixed form, for the | carryin, gypt. This would confirm my 
though hee reget gratifi volatile saiia proposition, In the- book of Exodus full 
almost inivisible to pres eye. A pot of seed- and evanescent rare principles diffused throughout | directions o Moses how to make the holy 
ling Agrostis ai which for a time es i re. Perfumes are invisible and arty one anointing oil and the i inert of sweet spices, The 
very flourishing, suddenly began to fail, as we con- | emanations from all odoriferous bodies carried through | anointing oil w. ure of Myrrh, Cinnamon, 
ceived in the first place, and probably correctly, from the atmosphere and rendered perceptible to ak Calamus or Sweet, t Ru s, "Cassia, and Olive oil; and the 
haying been watered with too heavy a rose. The|§ ses by means of our olfactory reri They can ineeing - consisted of Stacte, Onycha, Galbanain, and 
. plants however which had fallen down and comein Fra e. former. was used. to anoint the 
pane with aor ee hot tha < one te affinity which exists betw A EA AAE a “the holy vessels, and the altar of burnt 
„ones: to fail, but as the otbers soon be them may bi wait to reat the eich of the art t of offerings. It was also poured on the head of the high 
came À F $ 5 
. perfumery. ae substances «are found to absorb | priest, in sufficient profusion to run down his beard 
aurea Ss Saeg ve pes: so ang . ~ at odours more readily than any others; vegetable sub- | and the skirts of his garments, and was intended as a 
rep ihat a. prn eee nee menasi stances ae that property toa less extent, whilst | symbol of everlasting prieetnood d emong Aaron and his 
fi the pre rage yea ee them. The odoriferous | generation. The incense was a censer, and 
nn nm the sound plants £ such tenuity that no perceptible differ- | also on the altar. xe two preparations were to be 
and soon involved them in the same destruction a S weight can Se observed in bodies which e mit strictly confined to sacred purposes, pe a re 
-The appearance was so iike that of the Well ing“ | them saand: “A single pod of Pe 
_tonias and other Coniferæ which had va salt ischarged in- one day 57 million DSa S ina people, It was also actly forbidden to any but the 
the case above-mentioned, that we felt on a a ius Mire, the Lord 
_onee that there must be some thing very similar, diminished, Other v very abstruse calculations have been | and Korah, Dathan, and ‘Abiran, wit th 250 others, w were 
, Accordingly we were soon able to trace the deve- made to determine the exact size of an odoriferous a “me r having violated that law. Unt iah, the king, 
. lopment of these thesda though the greater part particle, but. the results obt ained b y the vai arious learn ned | reprim anded by a y p the priest, for 
of them perished, and the little Fungus to which | 70" wao ople, na paging 
the fave ise was Ap a-fo ie ihat Te wia quite | 0m ee ibn other, that it is ‘permitted to doubt their | fee ‘in eas bnsa was ae with leprosy o: 
-inyisible without i 
the compound mi joro cope, ee ae read w power otii, “O Criton, Hippocrates, and „other ancient doctors, Perfames were largely used by the Jews for priva pie 
parinely | ¢ ing " 
S1Y | for many diseas those of i i byl 
b iy l and jointed, and giving off li le ae 2s Pi ny di es, especially ose of a nervous kind, eeka RSA the ae of the King K ayn 
ny also attributes herronka pa ies to various | he showed them all his treasures, the gol 
less aoe lk laerei tufts of heroic ame aromatic substances, and some perfumes are still used | silver, and the spices, and the precious ointment; and 
necklace-lik: inated by rved, some- | in a pn ERE, A ae, pae] however, of our | sweet spices also formed om of the costly Ee a 
cal men entirely pro e use of scents, brought to Solomon. b; Queen of She e 
and Fa to ae baps their age pwno fiout one tending that they are injurious to health, In this I ‘I | principal O employed, at at that time | are t tints 
to five hyaline . septa.” “wh en perfectly grown 
- each articulation is 
somewhat swollen, andin a few |™@ sleeping apartment all night, 
batlamene Ns ry aia 4 headache and sickness, but this Beet as ae iii the Mon iep a with all ae hist spices.” they we 
aie: a The Fungus diffusion of their aroma, but the carbonic a principally made up in the „shape of ointments, wh eh 
| they Son Bejana = dons =e ppl isa mistake ; mis bod yi 
action of ce i 
l oda “Te a prn Ste from those flowers | guests. Thos ve ‘find M alene, when Jesus 
um |were left open in the same FRE eee = was sitting at in the 2 of Simon the leper, 
|evìl effect would arise fro EAn farate 
al | be said is that some delicate Teopile. may po affected by by | on hi his feet, They also used perfumes i ina dry tor w 
te | certain odours, the same person to whom a musky |i nts 
scent po a give a headache might derive much relief ae for the purification of the w women as ordained ay 
basis. Imagination has, Aromatics 
a great deal to do with the 
mm Be ets of portamen and Dr. i 
aa a who fancied she | not bear the smell 
sort le nd who once fainted at the sight of one of as 
vl Na Peat be 
ho | ending to show that perfumes ar e beneficial and pro- | of = that it : -m eigen 
hylactic in the highest degree. ‘After the Dutch eyes, which she print in the pti iin. 
lestroyed, by s re te the Clove — - the Island | Ezekiel explains that i 
| of Ternate, that colon Tu visited by a series of|and says, “Thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thine 
z e merry which had been kept off beige: tae by the | eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments ” Soap does 
i fragrant smell of the T. and in more modern | not appear to een oe kno the Jews. It is 
times, when by ck true that th d occurs e the Bible, but 
| va was not, to sett, 3 single victim among x this instance the H see word “ borith,” 
| numerous perm K employed in the mann’s o n translated 
lectins of either city. In fine, we are iny mehi a es (or alkali, a suposed oor E tapers! 
natural insti net t p ewhat similar to tbe 
mma pe So een Era aian ot aru da Ga Dai ent 
i to mislead us int the holy incense, ere words “ torth Carsbina,” 
which are pang ise nslated “soap of Carshina,” but 
Odours Soni ‘een clang ified in various ways by soap would form a ess 5 ingredien ent for incense, and 
scientitic men. nnæus divided them into 
cla three of which only viz., | petre, found ať Carshi hich Id te 
the aromatic, the fra grant 1: but h combust id G 
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aa Pet in reed neg toed ever good his general divisions may have been, Se In Egypt, perfi ere likewise applied to three 
sisted nial genes wili goa great at way above were far — correct, for cn Carnation | distinct rye, perfumes we to the be go uses in pin 
; et lens, an ~iwith Laurel leaves, and saffron with Jasmine, than | life, and skaon e dead. the inform: 
