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was particularly celebrated for roses, and that 

 he saw a great quantity of these flowers at 

 Calicut, both red, white, and yellow ; and Sir 

 William Ouseley tells us, in his work on Persia, 

 that when he entered the flower-garden be- 

 longing to the governor of a castle near Fassa, 

 he was overwhelmed with roses. In Persia, 

 wine and other liquors are brought to table 

 with a rose in the bottle instead of a stopple 

 or cork. 



Jackson says, that the roses of the Jinan 

 Nile, or garden of the Nile (attached to the 

 Emperor of Morocco's palace), are unequalled, 

 and that mattrasses are made of their petals 

 for the men of rank to recline upon ; and we 

 read in Father Catrou's " Histoire du Mogol" 

 that the celebrated Princess Nourmahal caused 

 an entire canal to be filled with rose-water, 

 upon which she took her pleasure with the 

 Great Mogul. 



The heat of the sun disengaging the water 

 from the essential oil of the rose, this sub- 

 stance was remarked floating on the surface 

 of the canal ; and it was thus that the essence 

 or otto of roses was first discovered. 



A perfumer in Paris, who made otto of 

 roses for the court of Louis the Sixteenth, 

 says, it required four thousand pounds weight 



