June 2, 1860. | 
THE GARDENE 
TRS’ 
CHRON ICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
the flow of sap to the top, and generally induces shoots | pimen kaa a man can raise a box of almost any weight. 
to push from the naked parts below. If the shoots so e the power ee guiied is nearly as 1 to 10, so that 
produced attain the length of 1 gus I cut them bac le itt doike ~ sc handles w een raise half a ton 
for two seasons to four or five When these | attache d to the of the s short t lev 
young anches are in a condition is ie the place of The connecting he 
the old, the latter a me back in the course of a year, ” s brought down 1 to ron on the top of ve pole mere in | 
ut not all same time; the wounds are covered fixed by a small bolt pin, phar is | 
b 
with graftin 
Unless in thee case of an excess of sap, I only prune 
at two seasons. The first at the new moon in May. 
The buds situated m the pg BE push, either 
n August, fou 
ont, where it is 
aig rizontal p 
i estinat gia 
p kpe to be more fully "indent I shall add a 
few words with regard to „the cal eepe ion. 
ved, t ms 
ent to maintain it in tee. io 
oth e pak praning takes place at the 
moon in Ja The buds swell, 
a T 
, tal dots ly 
the moveable back e 
| they even thought it be Bonae to the 
| made, ac cording to some, 
| to others, from “burnt ies 
ne r rall 
sight. 
| | still ix grent u use ; among astern nations, and even in 
| some parts of Europe. I have arecipe for that used by 
| the modern Ars abs, which will be mentioned in its 
| pr oper 
The 
e proces of embalming caused also a greai 
the latter till the the centre of the 
riage » pass the cans round ' the four feet of the box, 
h 
n secure the fi machine 
s 
numerous ‘that the ey displace each sey ; 
fault e 
cl he 
* bee the nck zeni 
car- | 
IL hooks ai w ich ome end of 
of th 
and is thus described by feo. 
dotus :—After extracting the brain from t the nostrils, 
and filling yak h with a ugs, t th 
the side of the body, removed t the intesti nes, washed 
the cavity bre mar tag a and filled it with a of 
is a fault easily rem by removing the sm maller beam; ai ae n the up rig ht | pure Myrrh, cassia, and other fragrant substances, Fran- 
fruits, either by twi thee or with curved scissors. | levers by the w 1d the | the after which Ho body » sewn up. 
Emm. Pendaries, Toulouse, in the Revue Horticole. will be raise ed 8 or 10 Pov from the ground. It is| This was the first class or mos xpensive mode of 
[From the above we learn that even in the south of | fixed in position by mea s of the small milh i embalming. For the second cls £ they oil of 
France the Peach tree left únprūned s tion, at thet according to | cedar into the abdomen, and kept the bot in salt for 
naked and worn out, i o case with e| the size of the mac Sion es weight to be mored, | several days. The third kind, nich was 
climate of Britain. From its mode of bearing it requires | one or two men, or a horse if n ary, effects or the poor, EEA simply in cleansing tho b _ 
the annual removal of the wood that ha: orne | transit of the box to its intended destination, where ty |an injection of syrmæa and salt. Diodorus giv 
fruit, and which is FOOR TASS doing so again It is | reversing t il count, stating that the; ea ioe Myrth 
pee Pige to sho ll t I I have stated that the Sébire machine was compara- | and other drugs, _ hie have the poin not only of 
ter pruning, i er to insure successional bearing tively cheap p. Ing givir ng the pr ices, I ought | to state | preserving sor! ls dy for a length of time, but also of 
kea as near as possible to the old w ood, | Som y and | imparting to to it a fragrant odour, 
the contrary, recommend the bearing sh be left Of this any one may na con- | The iaprotlest. used by sot Egyptians for their per- 
at full length. pona ER bebo ag at Tou- | vinced r za arcing the specimens de pi ited at the | fumery s those employed by the 
louse, weaker succession ted eed year, as Entrepôt Général of E. Gan a Quai de Billy, 56. | Jews. A few of them, such = Bitter Almonds, Origa- 
technically e ororena farther he tha m home, | The price varies according to sizes of the boxes. | num, were Sie NEES to the soil of they 
thus leaving a gre of naked ranch ‘with the No. 1, from about 2 to 24 feat, ei 5 fr.; No. 2, from | also imported a great quantity of foreign aromatics, 
exception of tne pore het chance outbreaks, | 2% to 3 feet 4 age 225 fr.; No. 3, from 3 feet 4 in. | m Arabia oe z Py the time of the 
MACHINE FOR MOVING PLANT BOXES. 
ranslated from the ‘‘ Revue Horticole.”) 
€ rigours of winter are now no longer to be feared, 
e tender shrubs which have been artificially pro- 
e last six months r e free and air. 
muc. 
; No. 4, from 4 feet to 5 feet 4 inches, 
fr. H.E: i 
ON THE ART OF PERFUMERY, ITS HISTORY, 
AND COMMERCIAL Enen 
BY EUGENE 
[Abridged from the Journal a the pacar e of Arts. J 
(Continued from p. 481.) 
Tue perfumery the Egyptians used for private pur 
| poses consisted principally of pyr of eae there 
t variety. Some were composed of and 
a y manag 
wkward wi 
Tt i 
front of whi ich 
other by ee pises 
; the 
eable, 
deat grea = in its 
place by bolts. The 
mework i is ott 
16 inches i n diam 
fixed, on 
to each side of the, 
i by strong” 
bearings; the 
fore wheel, on the 
ong, 
Da Ue ene, sheet 
making tee irei length 7 feet, ve are brought 
down to a horizontal position 
es. 
and a eapness, was chiefly 
es, whoa inted their whole boemi pene it, 
f Ind all 
mn mhr Sottaaka th poar somo 
it was 
sweet-scented o: 
a “of a adie s ta ie liry and | on their hair, or tather on their wigs, for sere were ti 
are 
i; 
| pr’ rincipally fr 
| Ptolemies eiaeia t 
ie t, and Cleopatra kone pEr the 
rees am Judæa. 
ersians, the Assyrians, the Phcenicians, and 
other arene ancient eet a Airai addieted to 
| the use of perfumes, Five times a day the priests of 
oaster burnt fi yor spices on his altar, 
and the sgt age of Nine bear witness to the use 
of perfumes by ssyrians in their sacred rites. 
There is no doubt that they were also largely used for 
— purposes by those nations, for among the trea- 
es left by Darius in his tent were several chests of 
perfames, T those times Tyre Babylon were the 
o great marts for perfumes, the fi 
ping trade, the latter for internal consump 
e Greeks, bei eing a most refined argo were 
—_ 
F 
eiye 
r them in 
oe w their gods, but aps yoni Toke opon peia as a 
ons ir siete and other 
e | with Bey mbrosial 
around thal -Resides | the ; perfumes r 
Iaviehly emplo loyed i n private life, and their i 
increased at one time to such an extent, that- 
| thought i it necessary to forbid the Anih people 
using them. We ma: wever, that this law 
was not long o observed, fi the Roman 
Empire, the Athenians pending for their 
| talent in making up perfumery. principal perfumes 
were unguents, an most famous was the panathe- 
naicon, of which Atheneus gives us the recipe. 
also used various atics for burning at their festi 3 
or private ments, and mes for scent- 
entertain: 
ing their clothes, a custom whic is sti 
mong the modern Gr 
wines, which wa 
bear my bo wore that artificial head covering. Oint- 
ents were also used 
bs, were usually 
stone, glass, ivory, bones, or shells. One ol 
seg Alnwick Castle, — 
a 
defection, pe their T a were 
modern 
wines, which were generally with spices and 
aromati Die Arabia, The most 
however, were ed by i flowers in them, 
which gave them a very. deli flavour. 
mentions on: hose wines ealled sapria, which was 
ade by in it Roses, Violets, and Hyacinths. 
Although upplied to a different purpose, this may be 
looked ens sped first sop to alcoholic perfum 
he carried 
not as excellent, as thonen of 
Dioscorides, 
proscribed by t peor was betra; 
flits of concealment at Salernum iyi the smell 
Suik At got period Nero Seaicmdl at the 
een faneral n Poppes, more aromatics than cou uld be pro- 
an oj 
etained its scen ere to this day, 
| made ee pe 8000 © A 
y 
he toilet = the Ko hl 
powder, u sh By satin dies for darkening 
d 
dui 
to him by Otho, gold a silver pipes shed ae per- 
fumes a the hall during all the time of the enter- 
tainm 
of the machine, the short lev orien moved in a con- 
per direction, ‘anid owing to the power in con+ 
uence of the difference in the length of the respective 
the 
lids. It was supposed to increase the beauty 
be prilliancy of f the eye, and to make it appear larger , 
w: 
of perfumes principally nsed 
k 
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