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Title: The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Lady
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Publisher: London : Charles Knight
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en arrangedin small rooms, with as much order as the milk-pans of our dairies ; and upon the surface of eachvessel is strewed a few rose-leaves; not enoughto impart their flavour to the water, but designedto please the imagination by the idea they con-vey of coolness and delicious sweetness. ThePersians, who on many occasions carry theirwater in leathern bottles, use rose-water incleansing them, in order that its delicate flavourmay linger in the bottles. The rich natives of Hindoostan, whose habitsare exceedingly luxurious, scatter over the floorsof their houses in great profusion the cooling rose-water ; and smoke their hookahs amidst its grate-ful perfume. Perfumes are greatly in request in all easternnations. These perfumes are generally extractedfrom the sweet-smelling flowers so numerous inthese climates; but some, as the myrrh and frank-incense, are the resinous juices of trees. In theneighbourhoods of Lucknow, Ghaseepore, andCashmere, in Hindoostan, large plantations of l2 148
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Group of rare, natural, and artificial varieties of tl:e Ro: FONDNESS FOR THE ROSE. 149 roses are cultivated for the purpose of makingottar of roses; and these delicious fields shed theirinfluence on the surrounding air to a great dis-tance. The rose which grows in these fields isthe rose of Damascus, or Scripture rose of Sharon;but those who have visited rose-fields, with highanticipations of their beauty, have felt much dis-appointment at their appearance. The roses growon very low shrubs, which are planted for thesake of convenience in a regular and formal man-ner; and, as the flowers themselves are muchsmaller than those which are the pride of the Eng-lish parterre, they do not present a realization ofthose ideas which had been formed at a distance.Fields of roses are associated in our minds withbeauty and poetry, yet they are generally thoughtby the British visitant to yield in beauty to theluxuriant hop-gardens of his own country. The author of Sketches in Persia thus describesa

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