170 venient for training vines and plants that require support. All that region abounds in roses of every variety of colour, and of the nost delicious fragrange. These, with many beautiful species of creeping or twining plants, might easily be made to cover the brick walls, and counect together the whole pile of terraces, so as to inake it appear like a pyramid of verilure and bloom. In sunny spots upon the several terraces, you might see orchards loaded with tempting fruit; such as the peach, of a large size and delicious flavour; the plum, the nectarine, and the alumond; as also the citron of an oval form and a bright yellow, which had been compared by king Solomon to “apples of gold.” The mandrake, as well as the different kinds of rested its fruit upon the ground. Every where earth was carpeted with flowers, some of then sprinkled in the thick turf at the foot of the groves, and others arranged in borders and flower-beds, sending up clouds of fragrance, and displaying all the brilliant colours of the rainbow. There the bees Iðaded themselves with honey to carry to their hives, and the butter
