The Garden is shadowed with trees of a fine growth, standing alone, or in dusky groves and dense entanglements, pervaded by woodland paths; and emerging from these pleasant glooms, we come upon a breadth of sunshine, where the green swardso vividly green that it has a kind of lustre in itis spotted with beds of gemlike flowers.

In some of them his fancy seems to be imprisoned in the labyrinths of hair; in others the eyes deep with feeling or hard with gemlike brilliancy have caught it, or the lips that tell and hide so much, or the nostrils quivering with momentary emotion.

Gardens of tulips are radiant, and mountain valleys touch the soul with the beauty of their pure and gemlike hues.

His best quality was colouring, gemlike and rich; but this found little scope for exercise in the dry and laboured style he affected.