Foreign Notices : — Portugal, Sweden. 297 



but also water within the house. Into tanks or dungeons beneath a consi- 

 derable number of the best order of habitations, the water of the haven 

 flows through channels made for the purpose, and is, from these dismal 

 reservoirs, pumped up to the kitchens in the higher parts of the dwelling. 

 {Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Oct. 20. 1838.) 



PORTUGAL. 



The Vine is trained in Portugal much in the same manner as it is in France; 

 at least in those districts where it is cultivated for the production of wine. 

 The plants are seldom allowed to grow more than from 3 ft. to 4 ft. high, and 

 they are about the same distance from each other. The soil is stirred once or 

 twice a year ; the young shoots are supported on poles of reed, or trained 

 horizontally upon the tops of the others; and there is only one pruning given in 

 the course of the year, which is in February, or the beginning of March. In 

 general the vines are allowed to ripen as much fruit as they will carry; but, 

 in this case, the juice produced is neither rich in flavour nor saccharine in 

 quality, and the wine produced is consequently poor and of little value. In 

 the best vineyards, and especially those in which the Port wine is produced, 

 a plant is seldom allowed to bear to maturity more than three or four bunches 

 of grapes. Hence it is, that the wine produced is so superior to others. 

 (MarnocV s Flor. Mag., vol. ii. p. 75.) 



SWEDEN. 



The old Botanic Garden at Upsal is situated near the house in which 

 Linnaeus lived, and in which he died. The building that it surrounds, which 

 is now the house of the East Gothland Students' Society (Ostgothischen Stu- 

 denten-Vereins), was erected in 1740 for the pursuits of Linnaeus ; and here 

 he and Thunberg prosecuted their botanical studies. The gardens and the 

 buildings are both kept in the very best order. Several societies in the country 

 have since laid out gardens, and erected buildings in a similar manner. 



Forthcoming generations will revere this garden ; and especially for the trees, 

 now of luxuriant growth, still preserved here, which were planted fifty years 

 ago, under the directions of our valued monitor (Linnaeus), and tended by his 

 indefatigable hand. With such recollections and feelings, I visited the two 

 patriarchs of botany, J. and P. Afzelius, with the intention of seeing their 

 gardens. That of Professor John Afzelius is, from a waste piece of ground 

 transformed to a beautiful and fruitful garden ; and contains a considerable 

 collection of rare trees and shrubs in the greatest vigour. Among them I 

 observed, particularly, trees from the southern part of North America, which 

 had attained an unusual height. It will undoubtedly appear remarkable, that, 

 so far north as Upsal, is an Amelanchier vulgaris, of sufficient size to induce 

 magpies to build their nests on its branches. Several forest trees, such as the 

 different kinds of ash, birch, chestnut, and maple, grow here vigorously. 



The garden of Professor P. Afzelius, although not so abundant in forest 

 trees, contains a much richer collection of rare and ornamental herbaceous 

 plants. Large beds of A^arcissus Tazetla and double tulips occupy the upper 

 terraces; and among these bulbous plants is seen the white narcissus, which 

 almost always produces two flowers on each stem ; and Galanthus plicatus, 

 described and figured in the number 183. of Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet, a 

 native of Caucasus, and introduced into Europe by Clusius, which was 

 flowering here in the greatest luxuriance ; Calampelis scabra had ripened 

 seed the previous year in the open air, part of which was kindly presented to 

 us. We also found here a considerable collection of several kinds of aconite, 

 anemone, columbine, fritillaria, gladiolus, lily, &c, all arranged according to 

 their natural orders. (Garten Zeitung, Sept. 2. 1837.) 



Death of the Daughter of Linncmis. — Died at Upsal, on the 21st of March, 

 in the ninetieth year of her age, Miss Louisa von Linne, the only remaining 

 daughter of the great naturalist, Linnaeus. She left considerable property, 

 which goes to the two great-grandchildren of Linnaeus; one the widow of M, 



