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may readily conceive, such as have not visited those 
lands can form no idea : — 
** Another Flora there, of bolder hues. 
And richer sweets, beyond our gardens’ pride, 
Plays o’er the fields, and showers with sudden hand 
Exuberant spring.” 
The same also may be said of their sylva. To one 
whose eye has been accustomed to the plain, unpretend¬ 
ing grandeur of the oak and elm, how strange must be 
the appearance of forest trees, covered with large, showy, 
odoriferous flowers, 
“ Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue,” 
and of creepers, which he only knows as choice hot-house 
specimens, festooning their stems and branches as the 
ivy does ours ! 
All oriental travellers are eloquent in praise of the 
exquisite perfume and astonishing luxuriance of the 
gardens, groves, and forests of Hindoostan. Forbes, 
speaking of the Nabob’s gardens on Narranseer Lake, 
says, “ After sunset, the atmosphere was filled with fra¬ 
grance from the orange trees, champahs, and oriental 
jasmines, wafted by gentle breezes over the lake.” Not 
less “ sweet is the breath of morn : ” for, after describing 
