S98 Botanic Gardens, of Barcelona. 



nona cherimolia, iaurus persea, and Arachys hyppogae'a, which 

 are now cultivated in Valencia, though not so much as they 

 ought to be, and others which are reared as ornamental plants, 

 has just been destroyed, and turned into arable lands, by order 

 of the present archbishop of Valencia ; at least this is stated 

 in the periodical work, entitled Ocios de Espanoles emigrados 

 (Leisure Hours of the Spanish Emigrants ; London, Jan. 1825; 

 Art. Barbarism associated to Fanaticism). What a contrast 

 indeed the dark barbarism of the above archbishop, Simon 

 Lopez, by thus destroying the precious collection of exotics 

 treasured up, during the space of forty years, at so much 

 expense, care, and toil, by his enlightened predecessors, offers 

 to the diligent endeavours, which at the same time the distin- 

 guished Canon Cabrera is making to naturalise in the Penin- 

 sula the precious insect of the cochineal, and the plants which 

 sustain it, and whatever exotics he can obtain ! 



Botanic Gardens of Barcelona. — Lastly, there is in Barce- 

 lona, besides the garden belonging to the college of pharmacy, 

 another supported at the expense of the illustrious Board of 

 Commerce of that city, the direction and professorship of 

 which are intrusted to the doctor of medicine, Don Francisco 

 Bahi, known by his translations of the Elements of Botany by 

 Plenk, and by different valuable memoirs, which he published 

 in the Journal of Agriculture and Arts, of which he was the 

 editor, and which commenced in September, 1815, and ended 

 towards the latter part of 1821. 



This garden, founded in the last century, at the suggestions 

 of the Marquis of Mina, was the property of the Marquis of 

 Sentmanat, who ceded it to the College of Surgery of that 

 city, for the erection of a botanical garden, causing an apart- 

 ment for delivering lectures to be built at his own expense. 

 But the professorship of botany in the said school of surgery 

 having been suppressed in 1801, the garden was ceded to the 

 Assembly of the Consulate, under whose auspices it continues 

 till this day, though the University of Barcelona, erected by 

 virtue of the regulations of public instruction decreed by the 

 Cortes, has now ceased to exist. This garden is situated 

 within the city walls, and occupies an extent of about twenty 

 fanegadas (30 acres) of ground ; it is fenced by a handsome 

 iron railing on the eastern side, which borders on beautiful 

 garden grounds, and by a high balustrade on the western side, 

 which faces the land wall. The plants chiefly cultivated there, 

 are those of known utility in agriculture and the arts, for the 

 promotion of which the instructions given to the pupils is 

 particularly directed. This garden was in correspondence 



