ree in Ceylon. "The branch of the tree," observes the author of
_Sylvan Sketches_, "is not remarkably large, but it bears a leaf large
enough to cover twenty men. It will fold into a fan and is then no
bigger than a man's arm."

[124] Southey's Common-Place Book.

[125] The height of a full grown banyan may be from sixty to eighty
feet; and many of them, I am fully confident, cover at least two
acres.--_Oriental Field Sports_.

There is a banyan tree about five and twenty miles from Berhampore,
remarkable for the height of the lower branches from the ground. A man
standing up on the houdah of an elephant may pass under it without
touching the foliage.

A tree has been described as growing in China of a size so prodigious
that one branch of it only will so completely cover two hundred sheep
that they cannot be perceived by those who approach the tree, and
another so enormous that eighty persons can scarcely embrace the
trunk.--_Sylvan Sketches_.

[126] This praise is a little extravagant, but the garden is really very
tastefully laid out, and ought to furnish a useful model to such of the
people of this city as have spacious grounds. The area of the garden is
about two hundred and fifty nine acres. This garden was commenced in
1768 by Colonel Kyd. It then passed to the care of Dr. Roxburgh, who
remained in charge of it from 1793 to the date of his death 1813.

[127] Alphonse Karr, bitterly ridicules the Botanical _Savants_ with
their barbarous nomenclature. He speaks of their mesocarps and
quinqueloculars infundibuliform, squammiflora, guttiferas monocotyledous
&c. &c. with supreme disgust. Our English poet, Wordsworth, also used to
complain that some of our familiar English names of flowers, names so
full of delightful associations, were beginning to be exchanged even in
common conversation for the coldest and harshest scientific terms.

[128] _The Hand of Eve_--the handiwork of Eve.

[129] _Without thorn the rose_: Dr. Bentley calls this a puerile fancy.
But it should be remembered, that it was part of the curse denounced
upon the Earth for Adam's transgression, that it should bring forth
thorns and thistles. _Gen._ iii. 18. Hence the general opinion has
prevailed, that there were _no thorns_ before; which is enough to
justify a poet, in saying "_the rose was without thorn_."--NEWTON.

[130] See page 188. My Hindu friend is not responsible for the selection
of the following notes.

[131] Birdlime is prepare