pinch in ten minuts e ceremony of blowin d a half. One mi But I apprehend my readers will begin to think I have led them by the nose quite long enough; and lest they should suspect that I am making a handle of the subject, wo hours and twenty al day, or one day every ten amounts year. Hence, if ted in forty years, t fe will be dedicated to blowing it." Tale utatory, it may be aff is not to be sneezed which literally make uff-box has seized you 1, and if the red-ht the feat, could occ rk snuff-box, it migh king this propensit onables. written a dissertatio e nose mentioned formed, was like "th d Damascus;" and conjectures as to the suggested to Catu ng to be all nose: 5 rogabis, le, nasum." I shall conclude at once with a 'SONNET TO MY OWN NOSE. O nose! thou rudder in my face's centre, Scenting the gales of Heaven, that have not yet WALKS IN THE GARDEN. -No. I. Heureux qui, dans le sein de ses dieux domestiques, DELILLE. A GENTLE fertilizing shower has just fallen-the light clouds are breaking away-a rainbow is exhibiting itself half athwart the horizon, as the sun shoots ! forth its rays with renewed splendour, and the reader am the eve; its is invited to choose the auspicious moment, and accom- we walks, with 'pany the writer into his garden. He will not exclaims stone flights with Dr. Darwin, "Stay your rude steps! whose throbbing breasts enfold The legion fiends of glory or of gold;" but he would warn from his humble premises all those who have magnificent notions upon the subject; who despise the paltry pretensions of a bare acre of ground scarcely out of the smoke of London, and require grandeur of extent and expense before they will condescend to be interested. To such he would recommend the perusal of Spence's translation from the Jesuits' Letters, giving an account of the Chinese em peror's pleasure-ground, which contained 200 palaces, besides as many contiguous ones for the eunuchs, all guere raised hills from twenty to sixty feet high; gilt, painted, and varnished; in whose enclosure streams and lakes, one of the latter five miles round; serpentine bridges, with triumphal and all the for Jutch schools.forget for a plendid diction Eden, the ha from that ling on orien With mazy erro Both where the happy, rure brown'd the The open field him also bani Alcin end: undulating colonnades; and in the centre of the observes, fantastic paradise a square town, each side a mile long.ws Greek Or they ging gardens of Babylon-a subject which intinst Or they may recreate their fancies with the stupen-ard and vir no living imagination could perfectly embody and de- a perfect garden, with 66 Or kset-hedge, was the r deemed an a zen walls an so necessary to break the effect hed in a sm tainage grass-plots, which, he thinks, have an ill ef-d Peterbor lendour, and the rear Dus moment, and accoun 1. He will not excl fect upon the eye;" its four quarters regularly divided by gravel walks, with statues at the intersections; its terraces, stone flights of steps, cloisters covered with lead, and all the formal filigree-work of the French and Dutch schools. If the reader be a lover of poetry, let him forget for a moment, if he can, the fine taste amble premises al the and splendid diction of Milton, in describing the Garden of Eden, the happy abode of our first parents upon the subject; f a bare acre of grou London, and requis e before they will such he would reco translation from th unt of the Chinese e contained 200 palaces s for the eunuchs, & in whose enclosur to sixty feet high atter five miles phal arches nd in the centre dit each side a milele cies with the on-a subject ectly embody and de ealised upon canvas elshazzar's feast.age deemed ple's descriptiond Plal parterres, fe y to break the de Thinks, have an ile or broom, sa as a heraldic b ed a name to genets. Next al and beautifu baring its flow ame time, altho next year's fr partial to this rank his vines," contrived to impart every variety of scenery to a spot of five acres; and might not, perhaps, have been insincere when he declared, that of all his works, he was most proud of his garden.-But a truce to these deprecations and dallyings with our own modesty: the breezes are up, the sky is cloudless; let us sally forth, and indulge in the associations and chitchat suggested by the first objects that we encounter. This border is entirely planted with evergreens, so benignantly contrived by nature for refreshing us with their summer verdure and cheerfulness, amid the sterility and gloom of winter. This, with its graceful form, dark-green hue, and substantial texture, is the prickly-leaved Phillyræa, said to have been first brought into Europe by the Argonauts, from the island of the same name in the Pontus Euxinus. From the river Phasis in Colchis these voyagers are re-in; though plant of that in the sout are found th whence a in are so ra line crops in French have de e vermillion is free need not no longer us ported to have first introduced pheasants, though many writers contend that the whole expedition was fabulous, and that all the bright imaginings and poetical embellishments lavished upon the Golden Fleece, re-ituting for t embe themselves into the simple and not very dignified fact of spreading sheep-skins across the torrents that it nearly those treas none of the flowed from Mount Caucasus, to arrest the particles of gold brought down by the waters. Our own Cru-aclaim that sades, however irrational their object, were attended with many beneficial results, not only introducing us laste for verd mals, monste to the knowledge of Saracenic architecture, but sup-startle u plying our European gardens with many of the choicest Oriental productions. While we are on the subject of the Crusades, let us not omit to notice this Planta This false tast al age. Pl GRAVITIES. impart every variety and might not, perhaps eclared, that of a is garden.-But a tru yings with our own ne sky is cloudles; he associations and ects that we encounte ted with evergreens e for refreshing us w rfulness, amid the s This, with its gracet stantial textur, 1 to have been fis Argonauts, from hese voyagers are t heasants, though many was fabu kermes, whence a brilliant scarlet dye is extracted afford two crops in a year. From these small worms the French have derived the word vermeil, and we our are so rapidly reproduced, that they often vermillion; though the term is a misnomer, as the genuine vermillion is a mineral preparation. The Juniper-tree need not detain us long, now that its berries are no longer used for flavouring gin, the distillers expedition naginings and poetia he Golden Flere, substituting for that purpose oil of turpentine, willer and not very digus though it nearly resembles the berries in flavour, pos to arrest the patients, those treasures of our ancient gardened Arbor cross the torrents the aters. Our own Cr object, were attende only introducing rchitecture, but sup many of the choices e are on the subject * This false taste, however, may boast the sanction of a most to notice this has clasical age. Pliny, in the description of his fascof a most |