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GARDENING IN CONNECTION WITH ARCHITECTURE. 
["[Nature and Art, November 1, 1866. 
In Howel’s Proverbs occurs the following sentence : 
“ He hath sneezed thrice, turn him out of the 
hospital he is nearly well again. 
The following translation of some old Latin 
verses occurs in “ The Schoole of Slovenrie, or 
Cato turn’d wrong side outward, translated out of 
Latine into English verse, to the use of all English 
Christendome, except Court and Citie ” : — 
“ When you would sneeze, shalt turn yourselfe into you 
neibour’s face, 
As for my part, wherein to sneeze, I know no fitter place ; 
It is an order, when you sneeze, good men will pray for 
you ; 
Marke him that doth so, for I thinko he is your friend 
most true. 
And that your friend may know who sneezes, and may 
for you pray, 
Be sure you not forget to sneeze full in his face alway. 
But when thou hear’st another sneeze, although he be 
thy father, 
Say not Gocl lless hi m, but Choah up, or some such 
matter, rather.” 
Various amusing accounts have been given by 
travellers of this custom of saluting sneezers in 
different parts of the world. Whenever the King 
of Monomotapa (Sofala) sneezed, it was known to 
thousands of his subjects. 
“Those who are near his person,” says Disraeli in his 
“Curiosities of Literature” (p. 45), “when this happens, 
salute him in so loud a tone, that persons in the ante- 
chamber hear it, and join in the acclamation ; in the 
adjoining apartments they do the same, till the noise reaches 
the street, and becomes propagated throughout the city, so 
that at each sneeze of his majesty results a most horrid 
cry from the salutations of many thousands of his vassals.” 
The Siamese are said to have a custom of saluting 
persons who sneeze, and wishing them a long 
life. 
“ For they believe that one of the judges of hell keeps a 
register wherein the duration of men’s lives is written, and 
that when he opens this register and looks upon any par- 
ticular leaf, all those whose names happened to be entered 
on such leaf never fail to sneeze immediately.” 
What animals besides man are subject to this 
little annoyance 1 Dogs and cats certainly, and 
probably others' of the canine or feline tribes. Is 
the lining membrane of the elephant’s proboscis 
sensitive to irritating particles, so as to induce a fit 
of sneezing in this mighty pachyderm 1 Speaking 
of dogs, I am reminded of what Horapollo tells 
us, viz., that when the ancient Egyptians would 
denote the spleen, or smelling, or laughter, or 
sneezing, they depict a dog, “ because the thoroughly 
splenetic are neither able to smell, nor laugh, nor 
sneeze ” — a piece of Egyptian logic which only those 
who have been initiated in the “hidden wisdom” 
of the hieroglyphics are able to appreciate. 
GARDENING- IN CONNECTION WITH ARCHITECTURE. 
By J. B. Waking. 
ATTJRE and Art can never be more happily 
combined than in some noble building whose 
gardens, groves, fountains, avenues and park, har- 
monizing with it and forming, as it were, a setting 
to the jewel, evince that taste in design and sense 
of fitness in the accessories which lend such a 
peculiar charm to some of the fairest palaces and 
mansions of Europe. 
The art of landscape gardening is of comparatively 
modern origin. Although we have drawings still 
preserved to us of Egyptian gardens in the antique 
past (of which the accompanying illustration * may 
* This hieroglyphical design copied (but not the reference 
letters which we have added) from Sir Gardner Wilkinson’s 
“ Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,” and by 
him from Professor Rosellini’s work, shows the outline of 
an Egyptian mansion, built about an inner court contain- 
ing a vineyard, and having an extensive planted and 
walled enclosure round three of its sides. 
A. Is an elevation of the part of the building that looked in- 
ward. The design shows three stories, and that the 
roof was ornamented with plants. 
E. Is the elevation of the grand doorway. 
E P P F. An embattled wall, which looked, through an 
avenue of trees, on to the river. 
G. A canal or river. 
C C C C. Are ponds in the park or gardens. Ducks or 
geese are depicted upon them. 
D D D. Are kiosks or summer-houses. 
serve to give some idea) ; and although ancient 
Assyria with its hanging gardens of Babylon, 
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