the beauties of Flora. I must not forget to tell you, that the most rare and valuable perfume we have, is extracted from roses: it is called attar of roses, and is chiefly manufactured in Persia, where they have large plantations of roses, for the purpose of distilling; and the odour is so powerful, that it may be perceived at some miles' distance. It is very dear: that bottle of attar which I have shown you, was brought from the East Indies by your uncle. The French are celebrated for their skill in extracting perfumes from all the odoriferous flowers, which arrive at great perfection in their fine mild climate."

"How sweet," said Frank, "is this mignionette: I think it is finer than that which grows in the pots." "Yes," said

Moon" because the plants in the

About the middle of July, our travellers left their happy home, and soon forgot those objects of regret which they had left, in the pleasures they had in view. They passed through many towns; and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon encouraged the children to make remarks on every thing which was new to them. In the evenings, Frank wrote a kind of journal, with a short account of the places he had seen during the day.

As they approached the south of England, the children were surprised to see such a variety of wild flowers on the banks by the road side. There was the foxglove in great perfection, valerians, vero

ninas scabious and many others which

in most parts of the north, are only met with in the gardens. Frank gathered a bunch of purple flowers with yellow stamens, which his papa told him was the deadly nightshade, whose tempting red berries had caused the death of many children, who had been so foolish as to taste them without knowing what they were. "It is a singular circumstance," said Mr. Vernon, "that most of the poisonous plants have their flowers of a dingy purple, or dull yellow colour; and often those colours are mixed in the same flower, as the nightshade and henbane, and they are all denominated the 'lurida plants?""ite

The fields had now a most promising appearance: in some the heads of clover tinged the whole surface with a brilliant purple; in others, the wheat and other