592 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



No doubt, the heavy autumnal rains often damage the vintage in 

 Galicia, but not to the same extent as the bad methods of cultivation 

 in vogue in the district. The method of training the vines is that used 

 in Italy, pergolas supported on granite pillars with wooden laterals being 

 most approved. Espaliers are also much used in new vineyards, 

 but I saw no fruiting vines grown as bushes. Summer pruning is not 

 usually practised, and the maturation of the fruit is hindered by a Vc.st 

 tangle of foliage. This results in a large proportion of unripe bunches 

 at the time of vintage, and is probably the main cause of the acidity of 

 the Galician wines. 



List of some Trees noted. 



(a) as forest trees in the middle zone; (b) in groves or plantations in the 

 lower zone; (c) in gardens only. 



Abies Pinsapo (c). 



Acacia sp. (b). — This is the same species which is common in 

 gardens all down the Atlantic coasts of the peninsula and is said to be 

 A. dealbala. It has been planted freely about Vigo. 



Araucaria brasiliensis and A. excelsa (c). — The latter tree throws 

 out its branches horizontally, those of the former incline upwards at 

 an angle of 45 0 with the horizon. The former luxuriates, growing several 

 feet yearly, and some trees not apparently more than twenty-five years 

 old are already 50 to 60 feet high, and look like doubling this height. 

 I have some doubt whether this tree is correctly named. 



Araucaria imbricata (c). — The few individuals I saw were in good 

 health, but not making rapid growth. However, I saw no dying or 

 crippled trees such as linger in English gardens. 



Cedrus allantica and C. Libani (c). — I saw a few of these trees 

 of medium size, but no young trees whatever. Yet those planted at 

 Sotomayor thirty to forty years since are fine thriving trees. 



Cryplomeria japonica (c). — Rare. Those I saw were about 40 feet 

 high, and straight as a line, with every appearance of making fine 

 timber. So well foliaged were they that they looked from a short 

 distance like young Wellingtonias. One form was quite distinct from 

 the type. 



Cupressus Lawsoniana, C. macrocarpa, C.funebris, C. lusitanica (?). — 

 In gardens only. Those planted at Sotomayor were all doing well 

 and growing rapidly, but most of them looked as though they had 

 been " garden slips " when planted, and not seedlings. Hence the 

 Lawson Cypress grew like great bushes rather than trees. C.funebris 

 and C. lusilanicU (?) were making slender growth, but C. macrocarpa 

 was doing well. 



Eucalyptus Globulus and E. obliqua (a, b). — It is, perhaps, forty 

 or forty-five years since E. Globulus was introduced into this district. 

 On the estate of Senora Donna E. Lluria, Marquesa de Ayerbe. at 

 Sotomayor, a few dozen trees were planted about forty years ago. 

 These are now from 150 to 170 feet in height, and are the finest and 



