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hed by Messrs, Rivington, in 1820, with sixteen most executed plates.

Innumerable herbs and flowers embellish our gardens, gratify our sense of smell, and purify and renovate the atmosphere. The fields of clover (trifolium pratense), which are now in blossom, pro duce a delightful fragrance. Of this plant there are two varieties, the white and the purple; from the latter, the bees extract much honey. The bean blossoms also shed a still more exquisite odour. The elder, now in flower, diffuses its Frontiniac scent to the air, which it likewise imparts to wine made in imitation of that from the grapes growing in the neighbourhood of the town of that name in France. The sweet-scented vernal grass (anthoxanthum odoratum), which is the cause of the very delightful scent of hay, flowers in this month, and diffuses its fragrance through the country. This, if gathered while in blossom, put up in paper, and carried in the pocket, will retain the delightful smell of newmown hay for a long time; affording not only the luxury of the scent, but also the most pleasing associations.

About the beginning of this month, the pimpernel (anagallis arvensis), thyme (thymus serpyllum), the bitter sweet nightshade (solanum dulcamara), white bryony, the dog-rose (rosa canina), and the poppy (papaver somniferum), have their flowers full blown'. The milky juice of the poppy is the well known and valuable opium of the shops, the soother of all our

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pains. The Turks, it is well known, are I of chewing opium as a luxury, and to ate of indolence and apathy, which they the summit of human happiness. It is in large and repeated doses; and in the pium-eaters, it produces a singular species Eion. The higher orders frequently amuse in observing the strange effects produced chose persons by the full and intoxicating e mind is elevated to madness; the man self a sultan, orders the servants to be dismisses one minister, beheads another, rts himself with all the dignity and arroa king: while at the highest pitch of slave is ordered to make a sudden and ; in a moment the horror-struck opiumds abashed, prays for forgiveness, and erfectly sober. Such is the very extraor-ct of a sudden noise upon a person who sufficient opium to procure intoxication. asshopper makes his appearance in this See our last volume, pp. 183, 184.

the most interesting scenes in June, is, in ct state, the angler's may-fly (ephemera which appears about the 4th, and continues ortnight. It emerges from the water, where its aurelia state, about six in the evening, about eleven at night. There are also the -een beetle (scarabæus auratus); various flies; the cuckoo-spit insect (cicada spund the stag-beetle (lucanus cervus). The pecies of the gad-fly (œstrus bovis—equi— ), the ox, horse, and sheep gad-fly, make earance in this month.

se, the type of love and beauty, now holds cuous place in the flower-garden:

h! see, deep-blushing in her green recess, he bashful virgin-rose, that half-revealing, nd half, within herself, herself concealing, 8 lovelier for her hidden loveliness.

Lo! soon her glorious beauty she discovers;

Soon droops; and sheds her leaves of faded hue:

Can this be she,-the flower,-ere while that drew

The heart of thousand maids, of thousand longing lovers?

So fleeteth in the fleeting of a day,

Of mortal life the green leaf and the flower,
And not, though Spring return to every bower,
Buds forth again soft leaf or blossom gay.

Gather the rose! beneath the beauteous morning
Of this bright day that soon will over-cast;

O gather the sweet rose, that yet doth last!

TASSO.

In no country of the world does the rose grow in such perfection as in Persia; and in no country is it so cultivated and prized by the natives. It is often alluded to by Hafez in his beautiful odes.

When the young rose in crimson gay
Expands her beauties to the day,

And foliage fresh her leafless boughs o'erspread;
In homage to her sov'reign pow'r,
Bright regent of each subject flow'r !

Low at her feet the violet bends its head.

Hafez, by Nott, Ode IX.
See where the rose, and Spring to mirth awake!
So cheerful looks the rose, 'twere wisdom's part
To tear the root of sorrow from the heart.
Soft comes the morning wind; the wanton rose
Bursts from its cup to kiss the gale that blows;
Its silken garment wounds in tender play,
And leaves its body naked to the day.

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O, cease with delight to survey the proud rose! Whose soft leaves must too soon feel decay; For ah! the dark wind, as it churlishly blows, At our feet all its honours shall lay. The garden of Negauristan, a palace belonging to the King of Persia, is described by Sir R. K. Porter in his recent Travels (vol. i, p. 337) to abound with the most beautiful rose-trees; he there saw two plants full fourteen feet high, laden with thousands of flowers, in every degree of expansion, and of a bloom and delicacy of scent, that imbued the whole atmosphere with the most exquisite perfume. The

thered bunches, and every bath strewn all-blown flowers, plucked from the everstems:

ad as the parent-rose decays and dies,
ne infant buds with brighter colours rise,

nd with fresh sweets the mother's scent supplies.

e humblest individual, who pays a piece money for a few whiffs of a kalioun, feels njoyment when he finds it stuck with a bud ear native tree!

this delicious garden of Negauristan, the e smell are not the only senses regaled by ce of the rose. The ear is enchanted by and beautiful notes of multitudes of nighthose warblings seem to increase in melody ess, with the unfolding of their favourite verifying the song of their poet, who says. ne roses fade, when the charms of the bower d away, the fond tale of the nightingale no imates the scene.'-See more on the subject se and the nightingale in pp. 116-122. eneral character of this bower of faëry land, en of beauty, is, (according to Sir R. K. ike that of Taikt-i-Kajer, laid out in paral, planted with luxuriant poplars, willows, -trees of various kinds, besides rose-trees in n. In Negauristan, narrow, secluded walks, above and enamelled with flowers below, Es of clear and sparkling water, silvering the and cooling the air, are charmingly contrasted er parts which the hand of neglect (or taste g graceful negligence) has left in a state of c wilderness. The trees are all full-grown and nt in foliage; while their lofty stems, nearly by a rich underwood of roses, lilacs, and other t and aromatic shrubs, form the finest natural y of leaves and flowers'.

Travels in Georgia, Persia, &c. 4to, vol. i, pp. 336, 337.