ti) FORESTRY IN SPAIN. 



Lauik., Cupr. hori/ontalis. Mill., Cytisus Laburnum. L., 

 Eucaliptus globulus. Lauill., Fagus sylvatica. L., Fcaxinus 

 oxyphylla. Bieb., Gleditschia triacanthos , Juglans regia. L., 

 .Juniper us oxycedrus. L., Paliurus australi. Gaertn., P. 

 ranariensis. Buch., P. laricio. Poir., P. pinaster Sol., Pinu- 

 pinen. L., P. sylvestris. L, Robinia pseudo-acacia. L., 

 (jueruus ilex. L., Q. roljjur. L. V. pedunctulata., Q. robur, 

 L. V. Sexilitiora., Q. snber. L., Q. toza. G., Thuya orient- 

 alis. L., Ulmus campestris. L. 



In the capital, moreover, there is the valuable 

 Botanic Garden, to which there is free access for all, and 

 ni where there are not only umbrageous walks, lined with 

 trees labelled with their popular scientific names, but 

 numerous trees so labelled growing freely in the enclosed 

 spaces. It was removed from a situation on the road 

 leading from the palace to the Prado to its present position, 

 by desire of Carlos III., and it abounds in the products 

 of foreign climes. 



In the first year of the present century M. J. F. Bourgoing, 

 who had been Minister Plenipotentiary from France to the 

 Court of Madrid, wrote thus of the foundation of the present 

 fame of this garden : ' At the commencement of his admini- 

 stration of the Indies Galvez earnestly recommended to all 

 officers civil, military, and ecclesiastical within the whole 

 circuit of the colonies, to transmit to Spain whatever 

 appeared worthy of notice in the three kingdoms of nature. 

 His directions were complied with, at least with respect to 

 the vegetable kingdom. Scarcely a year elapses without 

 announcing the arrival from the Spanish Indies of some 

 new plants, which augment the collection of the metropolis, 

 or at least the importation of seed, of roots, and slips, which 

 they endeavour to naturalise in the Botanical Garden at 

 Madrid. Young botanists, whom the Court maintain in 

 Mexico, Peru, and elsewhere, transmit along with their 

 consignments a description of the plants immediately 

 within their observation, and of the soil and atmosphere 

 which appear most congenial with them, and of the culture 



