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erected in every capital of a province throughout the Spanish 

 monarchy ; six others in as many schools of the medical 

 sciences, and three great rural establishments, or practical 

 schools of agriculture, in Spain, and various others in the Cana- 

 ries, Cuba, and other parts of the Spanish ultra-marine posses- 

 sions. The hope of seeing the results of so many voyages made 

 for promoting natural history, at so extraordinary an expense, 

 by the Spanish government, published, has also vanished. A 

 fugitive and a proscript from my native country from the 

 moment liberty perished there, and deprived of the power 

 of communicating with those unprejudiced individuals who 

 alone could inform me of the truth, I am totally ignorant 

 how matters stand there. However, through persons worthy 

 of credit lately arrived from Spain, I am informed that 

 the School of Agriculture has been closed, because its pro- 

 fessor Arias, who was at the head of it, was declared impuri- 

 fable ; that in 1824 the School of Botany remained closed, 

 that in 1825 it opened only in the month of July ; that during 

 the period of the two last years the cultivation of the garden has 

 been greatly neglected, as the labourers were not paid ; that the 

 librarian, Don Simon de Roxas Clemente, has been banished 

 from Madrid in consequence of his having been a deputy of 

 the Cortes in the years 1820 and 1821; that several of the 

 oldest and most skilful gardeners of the establishment have been 

 dismissed from it, in consequence of having belonged to the 

 National Militia of Madrid, and having followed the constitu- 

 tional government to Cadiz ; and, lastly, that in the summer 

 of 1825 the said librarian was recalled. 

 {To be continued.) 



Art. II. Notices of three New Keeping Pears. By John 

 Braddick, Esq. F.H.S. 



Dear Sir, 



It was my intention to have sent you some fine specimens of 

 new keeping pears to be noticed in the next, number of the 

 Gardener's Magazine ; but I am greatly disappointed, owing to 

 the room in which I am at present constrained to keep my 

 fruit not being proof against rats and mice. The only sorts 

 which those vermin have left me I now send you, as follows : 



Surpasse St. Germain ; the large brown and green pear 

 {Jig. 45. a, full size). [An excellent fruit, the best of the three. 

 Con.} 



Grande Brotagne Doree ; the middle-sized yellow pear {Jig. 

 45. b,full size). [An excellent fruit, with a peculiar tere- 

 binthinate flavour. — Con.~\ 



