Botanic Gardens of Spain. 393 



if the gardener has no plantation from which to procure 

 plants for the following season, they may be turned out of 

 the pots, and planted upon some rich ground in a shady 

 situation, where, with plenty of water, if the season proves 

 dry, they will make fine young plants by the following autumn. 

 Where this plan cannot be adopted, a good crop of fruit 

 may be got, by taking, early in January, the strongest young 

 plants, with plenty of earth adhering to their roots, and 

 planting them in the fruiting pots, treating them as before 

 directed from that time ; but I give the preference to the 

 before-mentioned season. If bark for the pit cannot be con- 

 veniently procured, stable dung will answer the purpose well 

 enough. I am, Sir, &c. 



William Nott. 

 Taunton. December. 1826. 



A fit. IV. Extract from a Communication on forcing Straw- 

 berries. By Mr. Andrew Morton. 



I place my pots for forcing in troughs two inches in depth, 

 and seven in width. The nearer they are placed to the glass 

 the better. The troughs ought to be well painted to make 

 them water proof, and should at all times be kept full of water. 

 Thus treated the plants will be found to thrive and swell their 

 fruit much better than by any other method ; while the pots 

 being surrounded with water, creeping insects are prevented 

 from getting to them, and injuring or eating the fruit. Kid- 

 ney-beans treated in this way answer exceedingly well, grow 

 much quicker, and are less subject to the red spider. 



April 20. 1827. 



Art. V. On the Gardening and Botany of Spain. By Don 

 Mariano La Gasca, late Professor of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Madrid. 



{Continued from Vol. I. p. 249.) 



The botanical gardens of the four special schools of phar- 

 macy, founded in the present century at Madrid, Barcelona, 

 Seville, and Santiago in Galicia, are chiefly intended to rear 

 those plants used by the apothecaries, and in the demonstrations 

 of the schools of botany and materia medica. The instruc- 



