204 Notices — Sweden and S}min. 



grounds cropt trees, and avenues of fantastic figures, display the com- 

 plete triumph of art over nature, and afford an example the most com- 

 plete in the neighbourhood of Moscow, of the geometric style of gardening. 

 " The Petrovskoye gardens are open at times to the public, particularly 

 on Sundays, and the visitors there enjoy fine promenades, which are often 



enlivened by music. The estate has now most likely passed for ever from 

 the Razumovskii family ; Prince Dolgorokii having paid 500,000 roubles 

 for his purchase — a very large sum of money in the northern empire." 

 (Blackwood's Mag.) 



SWEDEN. 



Ribes Jasminiflorum. In the annals of the Royal Academy of Agriculture 

 of Sweden for 1825, a new species of currant is described by M. Agardh ; 

 it was received from North America, and is considered sufficiently hardy to 

 endure the open air in Sweden. Its fruit is not materially different from 

 that of the common red currant; but its flower is yellow, and as the name 

 imports, resembles that of the common jasmine. 



Lactometer. One of these invented by Sir Humphry Davey is described 

 in the Philosophical Magazine for October 1821; another was invented 

 about ten years ago by M. Cadet de Vaux, and which is sold in 

 Paris by the opticians under the name of galactometer; a very simple one 

 was invented by a gentleman in Liverpool, and one by a lady in Edinburgh, 

 both of which are described in our Encyclopedia of Agriculture (6510) ; 

 lastly, one has been invented in Sweden by M. G. Collin, and described in 

 the Annals of the Swedish Agricultural Academy for 1825. 



SPAIN. 



Cochineal Insects, and Silk Worms. According to aletter lately received from 

 Barcelona, it would seem that the experiments made on cochineal, in that 

 neighbourhood, have hitherto been extremely successful. Notwithstanding 

 some severe and boisterous weather experienced in the month of October 

 and beginning of November, no accident had happened to the young 

 insects, which were in a thriving condition. Glass-houses had been pre- 

 pared for their reception, during the severe months of the winter, and from 

 all appearances, it was thought that several new establishments of this 

 interesting breed would be formed and stocked during the ensuing year, the 

 late increase having been so great. If the Spaniards were to devote their 

 attention to the cultivation of other articles, for which they have hitherto 

 been dependant on South America, instead of spending their money on 

 useless projects of re-conquest, they would eventually find the solid 

 advantage of it. Their country contains mines of great value, and by 



