The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-01 00:00:00

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL.

There are one or two articles of merit in this
number, which is certainly better than some of its
predecessors. The route of Lieut. Burnes and
Dr. Gerard, extracted from the Journal of the
Asiatic Society of Calcutta, is full of interest.
That of M. Saint Martin, on the study of the
languages of Asia and Europe, will be read
with pleasure by every philologist. The sum-
mary of the experimental voyage of the
Amherst to the northern coast of China,
from a Parliamentary paper which we have already
brought before our readers, is somewhat late,
and the continuation of it, promised next month,
will be absolutely stale. The eighth article,
entitled " Mofussil Stations," is not at all be-
hind those of its immediate predecessors which
we have had so much occasion to praise. 'The
following extract from it is all for which we can
spare room :

" The roses of Ghazeepore are planted formally, in
large fields, occupying many hundred acres of the
adjacent country. The flush of their flowers, when
opening to the morning ray, and enamelling the verdant
carpet of green spread over a sun-lit plain, cannot fail to
delight the eye, but would afford far greater pleasure if
diversified with bowers and labyrinths, trellises hung
with garlands, and crimson clusters peeping bt the
luxuriant foliage wreathing over long arcades. If the vo-
luptuous Moghuls ever nelebrated a festival of roses in so
appropriate a scene of their Indian conquests, no traces or
memorials now remain to fill the spot with recollections of
the Floral fete. The gathering of the flowers, either at
its commencement or its close, is accompanied by those
grand revels, which seem to be almost inseparalde from a
harvest of roses. No gay troops of youths and maidens
pile the glowing treasures in osier baskets, or wreathe
them round their brows. The work is performed, sys-
tematically, by a multitude of poor labourers, who, while
carefully securing every full blownflower,think of nothing
except the price which will repay their easy toil.
" The first process which the roses undergo is that of
distillation. The gookiabee pacinee (rose. water) thus
obtained is poured into large vessels, which are exposed
uncovered to the open air during the night. The names,
or j ire, are skimmed occasionally, the essential oil flo sting
on the surface being the precious concentration of aroma,
so highly prized by the worshippers of the rose. It takes
200,000 flowers to produce the weight of a rupee in atta.
This small quantity, when pure and unadulterated with
sandal oil, sells upon the spot at 100 rupees (10/.): an
enormous price, which, it is slid, does not yield very
large profits. A civilian, having made the experiment,
found that the rent of the land producing the above-named
quantity of atta, and the purchase of utensils, alone, came
to 51. ; to this sum the hire of labourers remained still to
be added, to say nothing of the risk of an unproductive
season."

THE GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, No. 46,
Is as scientific and full of information
as usual this month, but is almost desti-

tute of any thing interesting to the general
reader. The first article is the one most free
from this fault, if fault it can be called in a
magazine almost exclusively devoted to the pro-
fessional gardener. The article to which we
allude contains a narrative of the tour of the
Conductor through some of the southern and
western counties, with his observations upon the
state of landscape gardening amongst them.
The different noblemen and gentlemen whose
seats and grounds he describes will feel peculiar
interest.in this part of the number.

Tait's, the Monthly, and Johnstone's, Illa-
gazines, must be reserved for a future notice.
They have reached us at so late an hour, that
we have been able to do little more than just
glance at their contents.

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